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.
These are the women fighting (and dancing) to transform Georgia politics
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Black domestic workers have led the charge to put Stacey Abrams in the governor’s mansion.
Elections
The Southern Voter’s Guide to Ballot Questions
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This year, ballots are a battleground over voter suppression, Jim Crow, and efforts to consolidate GOP control. Here’s a state-by-state rundown of what voters in the South need to know.
Elections
How transgender people in the South are helping each other get health care
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Facing discrimination, trans people in Tennessee and Kentucky have developed a buddy system for doctor’s visits.
A movement for police accountability is on Nashville’s November ballot
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In February 2017, Jocques Clemmons was killed by a police officer after a traffic stop and foot chase in the parking lot of James A. Cayce Homes in East Nashville. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department conducted an internal investigation of the incident and the Nashville District Attorney decided not to prosecute the officer responsible for Clemmons' death. Clemmons was Black; the officer was white. The same goes for many of the police shootings that have happened in Nashville. Rarely have police been punished in these cases.
Political System
What will it take to truly end wealth-based detention?
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More than a single law, Atlanta shows.
Economy & Class
Hog Tired: fighting for environmental justice
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Harassed by the toxic hog industry and unprotected by environmental regulators, communities in Eastern North Carolina teamed up for a federal environmental justice battle.
Environmental Justice
Alabama may have solutions to the nation’s Black maternal health crisis
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Healthcare providers have a plan to solve the maternal and infant crisis in Alabama. It’s an approach that could work everywhere: a return to midwifery care.
Public Health
How environmental justice is shaping a new civil rights movement in the South
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Policy wonks aren’t solving climate change. So the most impacted communities are coming together to do it themselves.
Environmental Justice
Midwifery makes a comeback in Alabama
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As Alabama figures out how to integrate midwifery into state-sanctioned care, will Black birth workers be left out? Or will the state with deep midwifery history figure out how to lead the country’s birth crisis?