Georgia

November 15, 2012 - Three days after an election that saw numerous attempts to suppress the minority vote, the high court agreed to hear Shelby County, Ala.'s challenge to the Voting Rights Act.

November 12, 2012 - Amid all the talk of a "New South," the region remains plagued by the old problems of entrenched poverty and racism.

November 7, 2012 - Republicans won control of the Arkansas Senate and House for the first time since Reconstruction, while strengthening control in many other Southern statehouses. The "Solid South" is increasingly looking solid red.

November 7, 2012 - A coalition of grassroots organizations from across the South kicks off 100 days of post-election actions aimed at building the Southern Freedom Movement.

October 9, 2012 - Congressman Paul Broun (R-Ga.) is under fire for recent remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell" -- especially since he's a member of the House Science Committee. But he's not the only member of that group who holds beliefs that put him at odds with mainstream science.

October 5, 2012 - Though the South is the U.S. region with the greatest concentration of income inequality, its representatives in Washington are doing a poor job of bridging the gap.

September 26, 2012 - A report from the Advancement Project details state efforts to restrict voting -- and the disproportionate burden they will place on Latinos.