March 22, 2023 -
Earlier this year, Louisiana regulators signed off on LCMC Health System's acquisition of three Tulane University hospitals in New Orleans. Documentarian Jason Kerzinski spoke with Tulane nurses about the deal, and they said they fear not only for their own jobs but for the safety of patients in what will now be the city's hospital duopoly.
March 17, 2023 -
On March 10 and 11, more than 150 people gathered to celebrate Southern Exposure, the award-winning journal published by the Institute for Southern Studies from 1973 to 2011, and to reflect on its legacy for movements today.
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.
