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Dissent in the Pentagon of the South

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'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics

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As the wood pellet industry grows across the South, Enviva targets Alabama and Mississippi for future expansion

by Danielle Purifoy October 5, 2020September 27, 2023
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Knock on Wood: How Europe's wood pellet appetite fuels environmental racism in the South

by Danielle Purifoy October 5, 2020September 27, 2023
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New Tennessee law surfaces the South's racist beginnings of felon voter disenfranchisement

by Iliana Hagenah September 28, 2020January 21, 2021
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Birmingham increases police budget by $11.2M despite demands to defund: 'People literally cannot breathe, and it's not because of George Floyd'

by Katherine Webb-Hehn August 31, 2020November 21, 2023

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