A blueprint for progressive wins in the South, and other lessons from the midterm elections
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Southern organizers bring an election analysis more inspiring than you thought was possible.
Latest
What will it take to truly end wealth-based detention?
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More than a single law, Atlanta shows.
Economy & Class
How far will Alabama go to keep its citizens from voting?
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Just ask Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, who's fighting to bring the vote to thousands of people the state would rather keep disenfranchised.
Issue 6
“If we win here, we can win anywhere”
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Talking roots, movement, Last Days, and beating back Neo-Confederates with the new directors of the 85-year-old Highlander Center.
Southern Politics
Why the South needs movement journalism
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A Southern People’s Media Network could support and expand reporting that helps everyone get free.
Journalism
What happens when you leave poor Whites behind
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There’s been hardly any investment from the Left in organizing poor and working class White folk, and that void has been justified by this notion that they are hopelessly racist and backward. That has turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Witness
This governor wants to take over ‘failing’ public schools and turn them into charters
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And these activists are telling Georgia's Nathan Deal: That's not how it works. Published in collaboration with the Nation.
Education
Atlanta in (trans)formation
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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?
Southern Politics
The suffering of Yefri Sorto-Hernandez
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Six months ago ICE raids put hundreds of undocumented youth behind bars. Now one of them is free. His story reflects the hundreds of others going untold.
Criminal Justice
Why we fight for 15
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Workers across the country are striking for fair wages and decent treatment. These are some of their stories, in their own words.