southern exposure
January 25, 2013 -
Two pregnant Southern women played key roles in the legalization of abortion in the United States. A story in the 1977 edition of Southern Exposure detailed their experiences, and we share it in honor of the 40th anniversary of both the magazine and the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.
January 18, 2013 -
Much of the impetus for the civil rights movement came from students who led marches, took beatings, sang freedom songs, and went to jail. James Orange organized schools in Birmingham, Ala. and recounted his experiences in a 1981 interview in Southern Exposure, which we share in honor of the magazine's 40th anniversary.
December 13, 2012 -
Today's right-to-work movement can trace its origins to the Jim Crow and Red Scare South.
November 27, 2012 -
Giving Tuesday is your chance to support fearless media and a voice for a better South.
February 2, 2012 -
The Dallas-based Susan B. Komen Foundation is in the spotlight for its decision to sever funding to Planned Parenthood. But a Southern Exposure investigation a decade ago exposed other controversies, including the money it takes from polluters and pharmaceutical companies and its fierce opposition to health care reform.
January 1, 2011 -
Under BP’s government-approved disposal plan, low income and people of color communities in the South have ended up with a disproportionate share of the Gulf’s cleaned-up oil.
January 1, 2011 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 37 No. 1, "Life After BP." Find more from that issue here.
