History
September 27, 2023 -
Republican lawmakers nationwide have introduced 400 anti-voting bills this year, while in Congress, GOP leaders have introduced an omnibus elections bill that would nationalize voter suppression. In response, Democratic lawmakers have reintroduced key federal voting rights legislation to expand voter protections and counter the attacks on the freedom to vote.
September 27, 2023 -
Facing South is republishing a piece from the 1985 Southern Exposure issue, “We Are Here Forever: Indians of the South,” with an introduction by author Forest Hazel, a historian for the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation in North Carolina.
August 29, 2023 -
On the sixtieth anniversary of the March for Jobs and Freedom, photojournalist Earl Dotter writes about reconnecting with Raymona Middleton, a third-generation Black Washingtonian whom he first met on assignment in 1993 at the thirtieth anniversary of the march.
August 14, 2023 -
A piece from the 1984 Southern Exposure issue “Elections: Grassroots Strategies for Change,” with an introduction by the issue’s special editor, Marc Miller.
July 27, 2023 -
Florida’s Senate Bill 1718 is the culmination of over a decade of restrictive policies in the South targeting undocumented immigrants. Organizers and legal advocates draw from historical challenges and victories across the region to understand outcomes of the Sunshine State's newest law.
July 13, 2023 -
A poem from the Summer 1981 issue of Southern Exposure by the Alabama-born writer, who passed away earlier this month.
June 28, 2023 -
Pagan ritual, country living, and a little magic, from the 1989 Southern Exposure issue “Mint Juleps, Wisteria, and Queers.”
