Black communities in Louisiana and South Africa fight the chokehold of toxic industries.
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Real museums of Memphis
We also wasn't really allowed to be mad about the death of King or what we had seen in that museum. The Museum—the motel where King was assassinated—now is the Black hole around which this constellation of white economies of new Memphis thrives.
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"If we win here, we can win anywhere"
After a serious fire destroyed part of the Highlander Center, we look back at a 2017 conversation with the co-directors of this important "home for movement" in the South.
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In Photos: Battle on the Bayou
Two years after Trump's approval of the 1,172-mile Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in South Dakota, another camp of radical water protectors is determined to kill DAPL's last section in the swamps of Southeast Louisiana.
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The Southern Voter's Guide to Ballot Questions
This year, ballots are a battleground over voter suppression, Jim Crow, and efforts to consolidate GOP control. Here's a state-by-state rundown of what voters in the South need to know.
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Measures meant to make North Carolina prisons safer are doing the opposite
A death row prisoner explains why taking away therapeutic programs is a big mistake.
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These lessons from Africa could help eradicate poverty-related diseases in the U.S. South
Experts look to successes in African nations to learn how to stop the spread of neglected tropical diseases in places like Lowndes County, Alabama.
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I pledge allegiance to the Always Not Yet
Taking inspiration from Langston Hughes, Zaina Alsous examines the current political moment and provokes us to work toward an America that has never before existed— an "always not yet" country, instead of an oppressive "great again" nation.
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A history of the present: What if the United States is Easter Island?
Why did the Great U.S. Collapse of 2019 occur so rapidly, and what set it in motion? Looking back in a recent article, the Swedish scholar Inga Stenmark acknowledged various long-term causes but stressed a chain of short-term events.
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The usual writing is no longer enough
The problem, put crudely, is that resisting authoritarianism requires un-authoritarian modes of acting, speaking, and thinking. You don't learn that in school. It doesn't read like The New Yorker.
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Atlanta in (trans)formation
Recent protests in Atlanta are about more than police violence. Can a new generation replace Atlanta's pseudo-progressive power structure with real democracy and racial justice?
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Before I let go: on Houston, mental illness, and family
"To my father's mind, the only true sign of family for the black fathers was the salvation of their sons."