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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.
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.
From stopping the removal of Confederate statues to preventing affordable housing legislation, this old legal doctrine has been thwarting local democracy since Reconstruction.
Homelessness is a persistent problem in small towns and cities like Hickory, North Carolina, where industry has been trickling out for decades.
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.
Modern-day Booth relatives are also skeptical. “My family believes he escaped,” said Hulme.
How Southern organizers are charting the course toward quality healthcare, abortion rights, work-family policies, and other ways to ensure wellness in marginalized communities.
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.
In a parish with one of the lowest rates of black high school graduates in the nation, a community tries to raise graduation rates
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
Lessons from environmental and economic restoration efforts in the Ruhr Valley could help usher Appalachia into a new era.
Back to the drawing board.
A new film looks back at how rampant voter suppression cost Stacey Abrams the Georgia governor’s race. And it spells out how to fight for voting rights in 2020.
Environmental justice has always been a struggle against colonization and capital. The Green New Deal can be a part of this struggle, but only if it offers an eco-socialist vision as big as the Global South.
