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.
Latest
Mississippians are on the frontlines of the battle for abortion rights
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A woman who survived an illegal abortion tells her story as Mississippi lawmakers pass the most restrictive anti-abortion bill in the nation.
Health
Forest Bathing in Appalachia: As Popularity Grows, Economic Viability Still a Question
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Research suggests Appalachians experience poorer mental health outcomes than most Americans, but many residents already have access to a potential cure—right in their own backyards.
Arts & Literature
Measures meant to make North Carolina prisons safer are doing the opposite
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A death row prisoner explains why taking away therapeutic programs is a big mistake.
Incarceration & Reform
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.
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.
Southern Politics
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
In the Black Belt, a template for fixing failing sewage infrastructure
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Collaborations between activists, researchers, engineers, and local governments spur ideas for wastewater improvements in rural communities.
Environmental Justice
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.
Southern Politics
A bill that gives human rights to embryos is headed to the South Carolina Senate floor
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A look at who’s behind the controversial “personhood” bill in South Carolina, and why it’s come further than ever before.