Human Rights

July 13, 2006 - See if you can get your head around this. I can't.

July 4, 2006 - It's that time of year again, July 4th. And once again, for your holiday reading pleasure, we would like to share two of Facing South's favorite pieces for Independence Day:

June 30, 2006 - NPR's Morning Edition aired a wonderful story today about a legendary cultural phenomenon in Texas: the Ice House, a multi-racial meeting ground that once thrived (and still lives) from mid- to south-Texas.

June 22, 2006 - When asked to comment on why he and other House Republicans from the South were holding up renewal of the Voting Rights Act, here's how one representative from Texas responded:

June 13, 2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a Tennessee death row inmate should get a new hearing based on new DNA evidence:

June 6, 2006 - The irony and hypocrisy surrounding the issue of marriage abounds, as evidenced by this:

June 5, 2006 - How far do Southern conservatives want to go in eliminating the seperation between church and state? Very far, if this report from the Dallas Morning News about the faith-based fireworks at last week's Texas state Republican convention are any indication:

May 30, 2006 - Sometimes it helps to know who's on which side of an issue:

May 22, 2006 - The war over who will run the Southern courts continues to escalate. The latest flashpoint: President Bush's recent pick of Michael Wallace, Sen. Trent Lott's counsel in the 1999 Clinton impeachment trial, to the 5th U.S.

May 22, 2006 - The latest figures are out about the staggering number of people the United States puts behind bars -- a figure that has us jockeying with countries like Russia for the highest incarceration rate of any "developed" country: