Nuclear waste in Paducah, Kentucky poses extra threat to region facing historic flooding
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Residents say federal agencies and contractors have left them in the dark about public health risks related to a Superfund site.
Bound by Statute: In Mississippi, Jim Crow era laws result in a high rate of Black kids charged as adults
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The actions of police, prosecutors and judges in the state ultimately end the childhood of black kids far more often – and with far greater severity.
Policing
Progressive wins in Virginia are limited as long as “Dillon’s Rule” is on the books
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From stopping the removal of Confederate statues to preventing affordable housing legislation, this old legal doctrine has been thwarting local democracy since Reconstruction.
Political System
Life in the woods: North Carolina’s growing homeless tent camps are an open secret
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Homelessness is a persistent problem in small towns and cities like Hickory, North Carolina, where industry has been trickling out for decades.
Southern Politics
‘Starve the Beast’: Southern campaigns to divest, decarcerate, and re-imagine public safety
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Across the South, communities of color have found ways to roll back the power of the prison industrial complex, and change how we think about public safety altogether.
Incarceration & Reform
The myth and reincarnation of John Wilkes Booth
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Modern-day Booth relatives are also skeptical. “My family believes he escaped,” said Hulme.
Civil War
Reproductive justice wins in Tennessee aren’t just about abortion
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How Southern organizers are charting the course toward quality healthcare, abortion rights, work-family policies, and other ways to ensure wellness in marginalized communities.
Reproductive Justice
Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have diplomas, their kids are aiming for college
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Latinos have some of the lowest education levels in the country, but poverty and immigration fears aren’t holding back some students and schools trying to break the cycle.
North Carolina
Hope in the rural South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding
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In a parish with one of the lowest rates of black high school graduates in the nation, a community tries to raise graduation rates
Economy & Class
Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school
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In a Kentucky county where coal once reigned, a principal tries to map a future for students that won’t take them away from home