Justice
September 12, 2024 -
Lekha Shupeck, who brings a long history of leadership in projects focused on democracy, investigative journalism, and social justice in the South, will serve as the Institute's first Director of Programs.
September 10, 2024 -
The editor of the CAROLINADAZE essay series introduces this new collaboration between Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies and Common Cause North Carolina to feature the stories and voices of young everyday North Carolinians and their visions for a better future.
September 10, 2024 -
In the first installment of our CAROLINADAZE series, a partnership with Common Cause North Carolina, Barbara Sostaita explores how NC's Latinx communities and churches are creating spaces for people to organize and chart a new vision for the future.
September 2, 2024 -
Alice Driver talks about her new book "The Life and Death of the American Worker," an accounting of the lives and working conditions faced by poultry and meatpacking workers in Arkansas, where Tyson Foods is headquartered.
July 26, 2024 -
Still facing obstacles from previous elections, voters in some Southern states will encounter new restrictions this year as they head to the polls in another consequential election.
June 21, 2024 -
On the sixtieth anniversary of Freedom Summer, read a collection of work from Southern Exposure about the Mississippi Movement and its aftermath.
May 29, 2024 -
Ari Berman, a national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones, has covered voting rights and democracy issues for over a decade. He talked with Facing South about his new book "Minority Rule," the ongoing attacks on voting, and his hopes for the future of American democracy ahead of the 2024 elections.
