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Young people gather during a rally held by Fairness Campaign to advance LGBTQ rights, Wednesday, February 19, 2020, in the Rotunda at the State Capitol, Frankfort, Kentucky. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston) Finding hope and solidarity for LGBTQ Kentucky youth. A trans student on how they and other LGBTQ Kentucky youth are dealing with the mental health fallout of Senate Bill 150 in schools.
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For LGBTQ+ young Kentuckians, community matters for mental health

by Ray Loux September 14, 2023September 14, 2023

Students have long called on lawmakers and school officials to address their mental health needs in schools. A young trans person in Kentucky shares how they and their friends are dealing with Senate Bill 150, which bans gender-affirming health care.

Dakerri Rhone of the Human Rights Campaign speaks during a news conference held by the Human Rights Campaign to draw attention to anti-drag bills in the Tennessee legislature, on Tuesday, February 14, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee. (John Amis/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign) The mental health toll of anti-LGBTQ+ bills on Tennessee students. Tennessee has passed a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills attacking students' rights, mental health, and well-being.
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LGBTQ+ students in Tennessee have never been more terrified

by Lauren Barton September 14, 2023September 14, 2023
Henry Drake was convicted for a 1975 murder he didn’t commit—twice. Even after another man confessed to the crime, he still spent 12 years on Death Row seeking exoneration and battling the classism and legal misconduct of Georgia's judicial system.
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A Close Shave with Death

by Lillah Lawson September 1, 2023September 1, 2023
Federal receiver Robert Sillen in the prison yard at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California, on June 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Prop 66 doesn't dismantle California's Death Row—it expedites our executions

by Timothy James Young August 30, 2023August 29, 2023
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A Man Alone

by Ahmed Jallow, The Assembly July 11, 2023June 29, 2023
Demonstrators march near Atlanta police during a protest over plans to build a new police training center, Thursday, March 9, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz) Cop City protestors now face felony stalking, intimidation, and domestic terrorism charges.
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Cop City protesters face felony charges for distributing flyers

by Candice Bernd, Truthout May 8, 2023May 8, 2023
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Night Court: New(ish) Sitcom, Same Copaganda

by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg April 20, 2023April 20, 2023
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Contradictions and Convictions: Megan Thee Stallion and why abolition can't wait

by Da'Shaun Harrison February 14, 2023May 25, 2023
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How 'the shadow of state abandonment' fostered then foiled Young Thug's YSL

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 2023April 28, 2023
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Cop City, Gentrification, and Young Thug: Atlanta's uneven war over greenspace in 'The City of the Forest'

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 2023April 28, 2023
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'Justifiable police homicide' and the ruse of American justice

by Da'Shaun Harrison, Joy James and Samaria Rice March 8, 2022November 16, 2022
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Anita Hill: Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court signals historic change 

by Anita Hill February 28, 2022July 1, 2022
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Roe is down. Keep supporting these abortion funds.

by Scalawag Team January 22, 2022June 24, 2022
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When reparations grow from the grassroots

by Ray Levy Uyeda, YES! Magazine January 11, 2022January 10, 2022
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Florida's legacy of slow-rolling parole keeps thousands of people behind bars—some, for decades past their eligibility date

by Justin Garcia October 28, 2021March 9, 2022
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Mississippi's childhood lead exposure interventions don't do enough for kids

by Erica Hensley October 5, 2021March 9, 2022
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'A lifetime of damage' on a creosote plume in Houston's Fifth Ward

by Xander Peters August 3, 2021August 2, 2021
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Qualified Immunity: How 'ordinary police work' tramples civil rights

by Lyle C. May June 23, 2021October 18, 2021
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Prostitution was already illegal in Louisiana. Then Republicans crafted an even more damning law used to target trans sex workers.

by Matt Nadel June 1, 2021April 20, 2022
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Meet the 5 women uprooting white beauty standards and white supremacy in West Virginia

by Crystal Good May 11, 2021May 12, 2021
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Bad medicine in Louisiana prisons

by Xander Adams May 5, 2021April 13, 2022
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A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment

by Brenna M. Casey April 30, 2021October 6, 2021
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In Arkansas, falling behind on rent could mean jail time

by Maya Miller & Ellis Simani, ProPublica; & Benjamin Hardy, Arkansas Nonprofit News Network March 22, 2021March 26, 2021
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Alabama taxpayers have paid $4 billion toward a policy that Governor Ivey refuses to bring home

by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 16, 2021March 29, 2021
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The majority of Alabamians want Medicaid expansion

by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 15, 2021March 29, 2021
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How a Black and Latinx coalition turned utilities back on in LaGrange

by Lewis Raven Wallace February 19, 2021February 19, 2021
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A new administration still leaves Southern abortion funders with political and cultural barriers

by Clare Busch February 9, 2021February 11, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

North Carolina's Racial Justice Act can remove prisoners from death row. But is life without parole actual justice?

by Lyle C. May October 26, 2020
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New Tennessee law surfaces the South's racist beginnings of felon voter disenfranchisement

by Iliana Hagenah September 28, 2020January 21, 2021
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This North Carolina law lets police keep racism and abuse under wraps

by Antoinette Kerr July 7, 2020September 16, 2020

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