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Despite declining residential segregation for black families in the United States, school segregation for black students remains very high — and it…
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.
The environmental and health risks of fracking for natural gas — including contaminated water and polluted air — have been well-documented. But…
Date on which Mother Jones magazine released a video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney telling wealthy donors that "47 percent" of…
Number of oil industry accidents reported in Louisiana so far in the wake of Hurricane Isaac, according to an analysis by the…
Protests are heating up over mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia at the same time new scientific evidence has emerged of the…
Activists with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance intentionally placed themselves in deportation proceedings in order to enter the Broward Transitional Center, an…
A bill that would block North Carolina agencies from considering the latest science of sea level rise in making planning decisions has…
Before voting to allow fracking in North Carolina, state lawmakers took two fact-finding trips to Pennsylvania — and a gas company that's…
The ACLU is accusing police of overreacting in their arrests of 31 people at the Virginia Capitol on Saturday during a peaceful…
North Carolina environmental advocates launched a campaign this week against the controversial gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," which…