Justice

June 4, 2012 - Women With a Vision, a nonprofit that works to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in communities of color, is opening a temporary office in a church today after someone set fire to its offices last month. The attack comes amid escalating terroristic attacks against women's health organizations across the South.

May 31, 2012 - Democrats and election watchdogs say that Florida's aggressive purging of supposed non-citizens from its voter rolls is a nakedly partisan attempt to help Mitt Romney win the presidency. But the bigger problem for Gov. Rick Scott is that it likely violates federal laws.

May 29, 2012 - The executive director of a housing rights advocacy group serving southwest Alabama, Teresa Bettis recently spoke with Bridge the Gulf and the Institute for Southern Studies about her vision for a more sustainable future for the Gulf Coast.

May 25, 2012 - A recent U.S. appeals court upheld a key provision in the 1965 Voting Rights Act against its latest challenge -- but it also opened the door for the Supreme Court to strike down the landmark civil rights legislation.

May 23, 2012 - A new database tracks exonerations of people who were falsely convicted of crimes, finding that almost a third of them took place in Southern states.

May 23, 2012 - A new documentary produced by students at Duke University in collaboration with the voting-rights watchdog group Democracy NC puts recent laws restricting the minority vote in historical context.

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.