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Jayla Allen was her family's third generation to attend Prairie View A&M University. She inherited a battle for voting rights in Waller County extending before her grandfather's time at the Southeast Texas college.

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Texas' oldest Black university was built on a former plantation. Its students still fight a legacy of voter suppression.

Reporter's Notebook: The Power of Proximity

Wake County promised to reconsider cops in schools. When they didn't, students took to the streets.

'When you come to school, you forfeit your rights'

Court fees and fines make voting near-impossible for ex-felons in Tennessee

The obvious solution to Houston's housing crisis: 'Just cease all evictions'

The media's extractive telling of Appalachia

Dissent in the Pentagon of the South

'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics

As the wood pellet industry grows across the South, Enviva targets Alabama and Mississippi for future expansion

Knock on Wood: How Europe's wood pellet appetite fuels environmental racism in the South

New Tennessee law surfaces the South's racist beginnings of felon voter disenfranchisement

Birmingham increases police budget by $11.2M despite demands to defund: 'People literally cannot breathe, and it's not because of George Floyd'

Raised on justiceand sweet tea.

Join the Southerners fighting for a better South.

What the hell is a Scalawag?

It takes more than good intentions to transform the South. It takes money.

Raised on justice
and sweet tea.