May 10, 2012 -
        
  
        A Gallup survey finds that a decline in the emotional health of Gulf Coast residents since the 2010 oil spill is "statistically significant and meaningfully large." 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        May 9, 2012 -
        
  
        Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, discusses why we can't stop now in the fight for equality. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        May 9, 2012 -
        
  
        Why did blue-trending North Carolina buck the trend towards states accepting marriage equality? A look at the numbers and fight around Amendment One. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        May 7, 2012 -
        
  
        Pam Spaulding interviews two of the organizers behind All of Us NC, a grassroots offshoot of the social justice group Southerners on New Ground, about their fight against the proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in North Carolina. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        May 7, 2012 -
        
  
        N.C. House Majority Leader Paul Stam (R) says he wanted a more narrowly worded amendment banning same-sex marriage but was "overruled" by the Alliance Defense Fund, a self-described Christian group that likens homosexuality to pedophilia and claims same-sex marriage leads to bestiality. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        May 7, 2012 -
        
  
        A commercial diver who worked in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP disaster has filed a lawsuit blaming his serious health problems -- and the suicide deaths of two of his colleagues -- on the oil and chemical dispersants used to break up the slick. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        May 5, 2012 -
        
  
        In wake of coverage by Facing South of his ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council, N.C. state Sen. Don Vaughan announces his resignation from the organization.