Justice
August 20, 2015 -
Former Freedom Industries president Gary Southern also faces up to three years in prison for role in massive 2014 chemical leak.
August 19, 2015 -
Cities that resist federal immigration enforcement policies are being compared to very different chapters of the South's tortured racial history.
August 17, 2015 -
Civil rights veteran and Institute for Southern Studies co-founder Julian Bond was a staunch advocate for justice and human rights. In 1998, the Institute interviewed Bond about what progressives needed to do to bring lasting change in the South.
August 12, 2015 -
An N.C. State University professor has restored old reel-to-reel tapes from a public library in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, proving that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. first uttered his renowned "I Have A Dream" refrain in the eastern North Carolina city in 1962, nine months before his historic speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
August 7, 2015 -
The notion that the Confederacy represents white North Carolina's heritage is not historical but instead political.
August 7, 2015 -
Fifty years after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, African Americans still face voter suppression and other forms of discrimination. The NAACP and allies are marching through the South for 46 days to demand voter protections and other civil rights.
August 7, 2015 -
The paucity of public and private investment in the rural South has caused outsized harm to African-American women and girls, but organizing efforts are underway to help them become leaders in building a more prosperous and just future for their communities.