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Environmental Justice

Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Hog Tired: fighting for environmental justice

by Sol Weiner September 24, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Fight in Swine Country

by Sol Weiner September 17, 2018September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

These lessons from Africa could help eradicate poverty-related diseases in the U.S. South

by Lyndsey Gilpin August 30, 2018September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

'I never let the viewer sit too long in one or the other.'

by Zaina Alsous August 23, 2018November 16, 2022
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

In the Black Belt, a template for fixing failing sewage infrastructure

by Melissa Brown July 30, 2018September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

From Georgia to North Korea, communities are fighting nuclear industries

by Gabrielle Hernandez July 11, 2018September 27, 2023
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The fishkill on Georgia's Ogeechee River

by Jim Abbot May 24, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Part of the river: Anger and uncertainty after decades of drinking water contamination

by John Wolfe May 22, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Why the rural South is still being treated as America's toilet bowl

by Lyndsey Gilpin May 21, 2018September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Kentucky's rural water disaster could get worse before it gets better

by Lyndsey Gilpin March 20, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The $29 billion nuclear boondoggle that's poisoning Black communities

by Gloria Tatum March 6, 2018October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

A roadmap for solarizing Virginia's coal country

by Eric J. Wallace March 1, 2018October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Lady and the land: Esther Calhoun leads The Black Belt Citizens in the fight against environmental racism in rural Alabama

by Salaam Green December 26, 2017September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Imagining another world in post-Irma Florida

by Lewis Raven Wallace October 19, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Trouble at the end of the line

by Michael Cooper October 16, 2017September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: "Blast Log" and "In Prenter Hollow"

by William Woolfitt October 4, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

A Georgia town's battle against coal ash

by Georgina Gustin June 28, 2017September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Black futures and Black places

by Danielle Purifoy May 28, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How do you beat plantation power?

by Danielle Purifoy March 15, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

In Lowndes County, getting free means getting infrastructure

by Danielle Purifoy February 13, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How federal prisoners might become Appalachia's new 'black gold'

by Kate Jenkins January 27, 2017September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Stories from a town built in the face of racist violence

by Danielle Purifoy January 24, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

What's changed in Lowndes County, Alabama—and what hasn't

by Danielle Purifoy January 9, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Finding places of their own

by Danielle Purifoy January 9, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

An epilogue—for now

by Danielle Purifoy September 8, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

A love letter to West Virginia two months after the flood

by R. Garringer September 5, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Community organizing mattered around Mebane—but the struggle isn't over

by Danielle Purifoy August 27, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Finding Black independence in Mebane

by Danielle Purifoy August 15, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How to fight the power company

by Scott Davis August 11, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

A place called Mebane

by Danielle Purifoy August 8, 2016September 27, 2023

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