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In the wake of last year's shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. by self-appointed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, attention…
Sue Sturgis
Editorial director of the NC-based Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South and Southern Exposure, where she focuses on energy & the environment.
Number of hours straight that Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) spoke this week as part of a filibuster against Senate…
Date on which the Republican-controlled North Carolina Senate, in a surprise move that took place late in the day, overhauled a bill…
Child poverty in the United States remains concentrated in the South — but one notoriously impoverished Southern state no longer occupies the…
In the last 15 years, factor by which fundraising for state judicial races has increased nationwide: more than 2 Amount spent on…
Rank of low-income mothers, particularly women of color, among those expected to be hit hardest by automatic federal spending cuts known as…
Clean energy opponents turned to dirty tactics this week at the North Carolina legislature to advance a bill repealing the state's groundbreaking…
In the three years since BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and spilled 200…
Young adults continue to face high rates of unemployment, and the problem is particularly severe in Southern states, which are also grappling…
Level to which President Obama called for increasing the federal minimum hourly wage in this week's State of the Union address, while…