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Number of years earlier, on average, that black women die than white women: 4.3
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 Moral Monday movement challenging the extreme conservative agenda of the state’s legislature and administration is gearing up for more actions in 2014
Date on which President Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty in the United States: 1/8/1964 Percent of Americans who were living…
According to an extensive new scientific report released this week, degrees Fahrenheit by which the average temperature in the Southeast* is expected…
Sales generated last year by the U.S. fast-food industry: $200 billion Percent of families of front-line fast-food workers employed full-time that are…
Since North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) was elected last year, he's pushed the state Department of Commerce toward a privatized economic…
Date on which the Republican-controlled U.S. House, led by majority leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), voted to make deep cuts to the…
Date on which the U.S. federal government shut down because Congress did not enact regular appropriations or a continuing resolution for the…
Date on which the Republican-controlled U.S. House, led by majority leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), voted to make deep cuts to the…
Whites who live in areas of the South once dominated by the plantation economy and slavery are much more likely than other…