Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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What Voter Suppression Looks Like in Practice
Poll observers in Tennessee recorded dozens of incident reports in their primary, a few months before this year’s highly contested midterm elections.
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Democrats’ 2028 Primary Schedule: A Cold Shoulder to Their New Activist Base
For reasons both good and bad, big cities don’t figure much in the states that will kick off the presidential primaries.
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Ida B. Wells: Brave Woman
By chronicling the shame of lynching in the South, Ida B. Wells exposed the corruption of white supremacy.
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The Return of the Dixiecrat South
In the pre-1960s South, which Supreme Court Republicans have just brought back from the dead, Black citizens have no voice in federal lawmaking.
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Q&A: ‘We’re in a Fight for Our Lives’
A conversation with Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson
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Is Chaos the Point in South Carolina?
Seems to be, but overzealous Republican state legislators steamrolling new congressional maps onto baffled voters may end up in a world of hurt.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Mifepristone Wars—and What They Mean for Black Women
Still concentrated in Southern states that ban abortion, Black women disproportionately rely on telehealth, which the Supreme Court has allowed—provisionally—to continue.
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The Court’s Ruling Unleashed a Torrent of Race-Based Pro-White Gerrymandering
In the heart of the Old South, compact majority-Black districts are being supplanted by elongated majority-white ones.
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The Court Didn’t Just Disenfranchise Blacks. It Also Disenfranchised Cities.
The Republican redistrictings strip cities of congressional representation.