Culture

April 22, 2008 - At a luncheon for Mississippi's Capitol Press Corps, state Attorney General Jim Hood (D) spoke out about the growing influence of corporate media:

April 10, 2008 - American Indians and their allies from across North Carolina gathered at the state Capitol yesterday to demand the firing of a Clear Channel station disc jockey who made denigrating remarks about indigenous people.

March 28, 2008 - The entire country is reeling from the mortgage foreclosure disaster, and the South has been hit especially hard.

March 26, 2008 - Sixteen national religious organizations filed formal comments [PDF] yesterday opposing the Bush administration's $150 billion plan to update the nation's nuclear arsenal, calling the proposed Nuclear Weapons Complex Transformation project wastef

March 24, 2008 - From the New Orleans Times-Picayune:

March 18, 2008 - Here's the latest Institute Index, as featured in the Institute's bi-weekly email newsletter, Facing South. Don't get Facing South yet? Sign up in the box in the upper right hand corner today!

March 13, 2008 - While former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco is making the most of her time out of office delivering speeches and writing a book, there's more trouble brewing for her back in the capital.

March 7, 2008 - If you're on Facebook and have been wondering how you can stay in touch with Facing South/Southern Exposure, show solidarity with a powerful voice for independent media and change in the South, badger us online, etc. -- you're now in luck!

March 5, 2008 - Remember the curious glitch that prevented a CBS affliliate in northern Alabama from airing the recent 60 Minutes' report -- and that report only -- on the politics behind the controversial prosecution of former Gov.

March 1, 2008 - Sue here at Facing South reported on Wednesday about the sudden "glitch" that befell WHNT TV in Huntsville, Alabama last weekend -- precisely at the moment that a 60 Minutes expose was airing which argue