Banking on immigrants
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Local sheriffs in North Carolina claim that locking up immigrants is profitable. But it’s actually draining their budgets.
Tennessee GOP used shady tactics to railroad a voter suppression bill into law
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The only way to pass this monstrosity was to disguise it.
Tennessee
Abortion is still legal in Georgia–for now
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These groups are fighting the state's abortion ban and they need your support.
Abortion
#NotKeisha: Spelman students protest Atlanta mayor as commencement speaker
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A shifting culture at this HBCU is challenging respectability politics and championing social justice.
Higher Education
Why media outlets cover racial reconciliation but not racism
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When national media flocked to LaGrange, Georgia to cover a public apology for a lynching, they completely overlooked how the city is practicing institutional racism today.
Georgia
Conservatives want to rewrite the Constitution, and they’re dangerously close to doing it
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Civil liberties could go out the window if GOP states trigger a constitutional convention.
Mississippi
Queer love and struggle in Jackson, Mississippi
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Mississippi is home to one of the worst anti-LGBTQ laws on the books. And some of the fiercest queer organizers you’ll ever meet.
LGBTQ
“If we win here, we can win anywhere”
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After a serious fire destroyed part of the Highlander Center, we look back at a 2017 conversation with the co-directors of this important “home for movement” in the South.
Combating White Supremacy
Can Young Black Farmers Save Atlanta?
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Two urban farming programs for Black youth aim for more than good food—they want to reclaim ancestral practices for a freer, safer Black Atlanta.
Race & Place
From rap battles to city hall—Mariah Parker sets the stage for young political leaders
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Known by her rap persona Linqua Franqa, one of Georgia’s newest county commissioners is leading her community into a more inclusive future.