March 17, 2023 -
The newly digitized Southern Exposure archive holds meaning for the past — but also for our present.
March 17, 2023 -
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Southern Exposure, a groundbreaking journal of radical Southern politics, culture, investigative reporting, and oral history. We look at its past and legacy by the numbers.
March 17, 2023 -
The Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of Southern Exposure, a groundbreaking print journal of radical reporting, writing, and oral history about the region. Co-founder Sue Thrasher discussed how the idea for the project began with a conversation she, SNCC Communications Director Julian Bond, and Howard Romaine, one of the founders of the underground newspaper The Great Speckled Bird, had on a porch in Atlanta.
March 15, 2023 -
When it comes to protecting North Carolina schoolchildren from the widespread industrial PFAS pollution in the state's drinking water, the burden falls on parent-advocates, the state's cash-strapped school systems, and municipal water systems often unprepared to address the threat.
March 8, 2023 -
Founded in 1973 by the Institute for Southern Studies, Southern Exposure magazine went on to earn a reputation for groundbreaking coverage of politics and culture in the U.S. South. Democratizing access to the archive is critically important work in a moment when history and who is allowed to tell it are once again under attack.
February 24, 2023 -
The Census Bureau has released its first round of corrections for the 2020 population count, and communities in Southern states will benefit thanks to prisoners being added to their populations. Reform advocates say this "prison gerrymandering" distorts democracy and paints a misleading picture of community populations for planning purposes. A growing number of states, including several in the South, are taking action to end it.
February 23, 2023 -
Goat in the Road Productions of New Orleans recently presented an immersive play about a family of Sicilian grocers deciding whether to make common cause with Black/Creole grocers during the city's 1892 general strike. They were joined by community partners Step Up Louisiana and the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice to help raise awareness about the history behind the drama.
