Justice

December 8, 2015 - While much attention has been paid to the fight for immigration reform at the federal level, far less attention has been paid to efforts to create welcoming and inclusive communities for immigrants at the state and local level.

December 4, 2015 - Decades before the "sharing economy," African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama used Rosa Parks' arrest to organize a sophisticated city transit system that made the bus boycott a success and became a symbol of the power of collective action for the Southern civil rights struggle.

December 4, 2015 - This week the N.C. NAACP, voting rights advocates and faith leaders kicked off an 80-day mass voter engagement campaign in the run-up to the March primary — a nonpartisan effort to resist recent efforts by state leaders to make voting harder.

November 25, 2015 - Outgoing Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) signed an executive order this week to automatically restore voting rights to certain felons. The state is among several in the South with harsh felony disenfranchisement laws that disproportionately deprive African-American citizens of access to the ballot.

November 25, 2015 - Rural America is long on opportunity and short on people. If the rest of America doesn't want an influx of courageous and determined new residents, send them our way.

November 20, 2015 - A task force studying ways to fix the state's broken health care system takes aim at a law that criminalizes prenatal drug use.

November 20, 2015 - While politicians' hostile response to Syrian refugees has dominated the national debate since last week's tragedy, local leaders across the South are calling for compassion, fighting Islamophobia and taking action to welcome families fleeing war.