Justice

November 3, 2015 - News stories that ask what went wrong with the South too often fail to capture the context of its intergenerational poverty: centuries of enslavement and systemic discrimination that resulted in the immense racial disparities we see today. And it's not just a Southern problem — it's an American one.

October 30, 2015 - A shocking incident of police brutality that occurred this week in a classroom in Columbia, South Carolina has raised concerns about the treatment of female African-American students in public schools — a problem that goes far beyond this one case.

October 30, 2015 - With the rising flood of campaign cash in state supreme court elections, incumbent judges of color are having a harder time winning re-election than white incumbents, a new study finds. How bad is the problem, and what's the solution?

October 29, 2015 - Policies designed to enhance public safety by limiting local police involvement in immigration enforcement are under assault by politicians nationwide. While efforts to ban such policies are failing so far at the federal level, they're gaining momentum in Southern states.

October 22, 2015 - Not usually thought of as an immigrant hub, Arkansas has a small but fast-growing immigrant community and has been more welcoming than some other Southern states.

October 22, 2015 - Elected officials and scholars gathered in North Carolina recently to discuss how to transform the way the public thinks about money in politics.

October 19, 2015 - A protest held last week at Ole Miss calling for the removal of the state flag with its Confederate emblem was crashed by a group of Southern secessionists. In recent decades the school has struggled to divest itself of Confederate symbolism, drawing intense protests.