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May 17, 2012 - Voter registration numbers show that Southern electorate in two key battleground states continues to grow more diverse. But will new voting restrictions undermine the power of black and Latino voters?

May 11, 2012 - A by-the-numbers look at the groups and individuals who played key roles in financing the fight over North Carolina's Amendment One.

May 10, 2012 - An initiative of the Campaign for Southern Equality, the WE DO Campaign encourages lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to take direct action to demand changes in discriminatory laws.

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 4, 2012 - In a critical election year, North Carolina state Sen. Don Vaughan is seeking the top leadership post in the state Democratic Party. He's also a member of the controversial right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council.

May 4, 2012 - North Carolina is the scene of an embarrassing national spectacle these days. But it's not the details of Edward's screwed-up personal life that constitute the chief embarrassment -- it's the trial's existence in the first place.

May 3, 2012 - Workers who helped organize the union at the Smithfield Foods slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, N.C. tell the story of how African American, white, and Mexican immigrant workers were able to find common ground despite the company’s attempts to use racial division and immigration enforcement to defeat them.