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.
Homes and gardens: The best thing to ever happen to a prison
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Teenagers took over a prison in North Carolina’s poorest region. Now they’re turning it into something their community actually needs.
Issue 12
How public schools help keep low-income students fed—even on snow days
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School closings in many Southwest Virginia counties mean students go without food. So school Administrators are finding ways to open cafeteria doors to hungry students and their families, even on snow days.
Food Access
Telling tales: How the media fails Appalachia
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National media has misrepresented Appalachia for over a century. Instead of launching new initiatives to document this place, they should learn from the wisdom already here.
Rural Reporting
White people who want to end gun violence need to combat white supremacy
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No one is immune to the bullets sprayed or the cars driven in the intense, seething rage of white supremacist anger at its peak. No one is safe. When white supremacy prevails, we all suffer.
Gun Violence
Kentucky’s rural water disaster could get worse before it gets better
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Martin County, Kentucky is raising water rates even though residents only have intermittent access to clean water. Coal mining and years of neglect are to blame, but it’s still not clear how the problem will get fixed.
Water Crisis
How a citizens’ group could end gerrymandering in Virginia
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This grassroots group’s mission is deceptively simple: To end gerrymandering in Virginia, the state where the practice began and which has become one of the most gerrymandered in the nation.
Gerrymandering
More than latitude: Ties that bind the Global South
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I recognized affinity across difference, something distinctly Southern and global: a desire to share. A cultural compulsion to welcome the stranger.
Issue 10
A rare victory against voter disenfranchisement in North Carolina
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A small precinct ran out of ballots for voters from the mostly-Black part of town. The Black candidate lost by three votes. Now, a court has called a rerun.
Southern Politics
Learning from the leadership of West Virginia’s striking teachers
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After a historic nine-day strike, West Virginia teachers return to their classrooms today. In their own words, they explain why they went on strike, and how this fight was about far more than education.