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New Orleans activists raise heat on raising wages

by Jasmin Mara Lopez October 10, 2017September 16, 2020
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Flora Crater, Southern state politics, and the ERA

by Matthew Braswell September 19, 2017September 16, 2020
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By the Numbers: Enforcing immigration in the Tar Heel state

by Felicia Arriaga September 12, 2017September 27, 2023
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The North Carolina GOP's campaign to rig the judiciary

by Paul Blest September 7, 2017September 16, 2020
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A civil rights legacy under attack

by Michael Cooper September 4, 2017November 13, 2023
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Why the South needs movement journalism

by Anna Simonton August 24, 2017September 16, 2020
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Durham activists rally to support those charged with felonies for pulling down a confederate statue

by Lauren Barber August 23, 2017September 16, 2020
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The purple tide in Alabama politics

by Katherine Webb-Hehn August 15, 2017September 16, 2020
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Editorial: Resistance lives in the South

by Scalawag Editors August 10, 2017April 16, 2021
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By the numbers: Skin tone and racial advantage

by Robert L. Reece August 8, 2017September 16, 2020
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In the labor movement's Achilles' heel, Black municipal workers organize Greensboro

by Eric Ginsburg August 3, 2017September 16, 2020
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The massacre men

by David Forbes July 27, 2017September 27, 2023
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Editorial: Saving Southern lives means standing up for Medicaid

by Scalawag Editors July 9, 2017April 16, 2021
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The South's immigration detention centers are already hellish, soon they could get even worse

by Camille Pendley July 5, 2017September 27, 2023
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A Georgia town's battle against coal ash

by Georgina Gustin June 28, 2017September 16, 2020
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Oath Keepers seek 'warrior class' in North Carolina

by Jordan Green June 25, 2017November 12, 2020
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Becoming a safe haven: Baltimore and the arrival of immigrant youth

by Elizabeth Doerr June 25, 2017November 13, 2023
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Atlanta and the politics of the losing South

by Robert Greene June 18, 2017September 16, 2020
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Black futures and Black places

by Danielle Purifoy May 28, 2017September 27, 2023
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If you've never shot drugs, you ain't got a clue: Steve's story

by Jonathan Michels and Steve Daniels May 25, 2017September 16, 2020
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Harm reduction is compassion, harm reduction is love: Louise's story

by Jonathan Michels May 14, 2017November 16, 2022
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North Carolina's strange election

by Sammy Feldblum May 11, 2017September 16, 2020
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Review: In Blue Texas, all that is old is new again

by Sammy Feldblum May 2, 2017October 27, 2020
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Betsy DeVos doesn't really believe in democracy

by Laura Jean Moore April 27, 2017November 13, 2023
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Your neighborhood midwife, Afua Hassan

by William Black April 7, 2017September 16, 2020
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What kind of landscapes should we build in the South?

by Kofi Boone March 23, 2017September 16, 2020
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What will indigenous sovereignty look like in the Trump era?

by Gregory D. Smithers March 21, 2017September 27, 2023
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How do you beat plantation power?

by Danielle Purifoy March 15, 2017September 27, 2023
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Who gets to legislate heritage in Virginia?

by Brooke Newman March 2, 2017September 27, 2023
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Meet Alabama's new U.S. Senator, Luther Strange

by Josh Moon February 16, 2017September 16, 2020

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