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July 20, 2012 - The "Peace Boat" exposes the barriers between affluent white Cuba and its largely non-white and impoverished population -- but also between generations of Cuban Americans.

June 28, 2012 - In the biggest union victory in right-to-work Alabama in a decade, 1,200 Pilgrim's Pride poultry plant workers in the small town of Russellville rejected management's efforts to divide them along racial and ethnic lines and voted to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

May 18, 2012 - May 20 marks the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was read in 1865 in Florida, marking the end of slavery. Today, a new movement to end slavery in the fields is gaining force among Florida farmworkers.

May 14, 2012 - Louisiana locks up its population at a rate triple that of Iran and seven times that of China. How did it become the world's incarceration capitol? Follow the money.

March 22, 2012 - A leading writer for the John Locke Foundation, a conservative NC think tank backed by Art Pope, resigns after posting an image of President Obama showing him in chains next to a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The group has issued an apology, but their statement raises as many questions as it answers.

March 21, 2012 - Most Mississippians may call themselves conservatives, but talk to them for five minutes and you'll hear William Jennings Bryan-style populism.

December 27, 2011 - On September 21, 2011, Troy Davis was executed in Georgia by lethal injection, capping a 20-year legal battle. In our countdown of Facing South's top stories of 2011, we look at the case that galvanized a national movement and forced questions about race, the death penalty and criminal justice into the national debate.