Olivia Paschal

Before & after Freedom Summer

A Southern Exposure/Facing South reading list for Gaza organizers

Elaine Massacre descendants call for backing up repentance with resources

The Communities Not Prisons coalition has stalled Alabama’s plan to work with private prison companies to expand the state prison system, which the U.S. Justice Department has charged with unconstitutional human rights abuses. The victory was won by organizing across geographic, race, and class line…

It was 32 years ago that Southern Exposure — the print forerunner to Facing South — set out to document conditions in the region’s fast-growing poultry industry. Many of the problems it reported on continue today. And as our recent reporting has shown, the pandemic created new challenges for the ind…

The long road to nuclear justice for the Marshallese people

The PRO Act would undo decades of Southern anti-union laws rooted in racism

A record number of Black Southerners could be elected to the Senate in 2020

Bakari Sellers on a life shaped by the rural South's civil rights movement

Momentum to abolish the death penalty picks up among conservatives