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.
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?
Reproductive Justice
These lessons from Africa could help eradicate poverty-related diseases in the U.S. South
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Experts look to successes in African nations to learn how to stop the spread of neglected tropical diseases in places like Lowndes County, Alabama.
Southern Politics
Property, poverty, and aerosol: Street art’s impact on Richmond
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Nonprofits and the city of Richmond have invested in turning the city into an arts destination, but that development may not benefit everyone.
Issue 13
What would improve life in the rural South? Ask rural Southerners
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Down Home North Carolina did just that. The answers they got challenge prevailing assumptions about the South’s rural communities.
Southern Politics
From Georgia to North Korea, communities are fighting nuclear industries
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While Trump was summiting with Kim Jong-Un, nuclear-impacted communities convened on their own terms.
Nuclear Power
The rural South’s invisible public health crisis
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Poverty and poor sewage infrastructure have led to a surge in tropical diseases typically found in developing countries.
Public Health
‘If free people are not allowed to have unions, how are prisoners to have unions?’: Conversations with organizers of the North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union
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In this three-part series we share excerpts from interviews Jonathan Michels conducted with members of the North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, an often overlooked part of Southern labor history. This week we hear from Robbie Purner.
Labor movement
A lot is at stake in the North Carolina midterms
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The state’s Republican supermajority––which has wrought havoc on democracy, the environment, and civil rights––could come to an end. But these ballot initiatives could stand in the way of a progressive recovery.
North Carolina
“We fight for what’s right and we fix what’s wrong”: Voices from Kentucky’s Poor People’s Campaign
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Legacies of sharecropping, 80-hour workweeks, low wages, mass incarceration. Kentuckians share why they joined a nationwide movement to end poverty.