Stories
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Rosa Parks鈥 defiance 鈥 and the boycott it fueled 鈥 can teach us in this moment
Each year hundreds of visitors, many of them young students, travel to Montgomery, Alabama, to visit the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University. There they learn how, on Dec. 1, 1955, Parks鈥 refusal to vacate her seat for a white passenger on a crowded city bus would spark a movement, one that helped usher in…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Alabama youth used advocacy to rise above after unjust school suspension
There aren鈥檛 many people who can say that they鈥檝e had an audience at the United Nations. But at 20 years old, CJ Jones has done it twice 鈥 on two different continents. Last year, he flew from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Geneva, Switzerland, to address the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent with a delegation…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
人兽性交 grant helps AAPI voters build civic and electoral power from the ground up
As the fastest-growing racial group in the country, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are becoming increasingly powerful at the polls. Over the past four years, the number of eligible AAPI voters has grown by 15%, or about 2 million, much faster than the 3% growth rate for all eligible voters over the same period,…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Georgia teacher suspended for posting Charlie Kirk quote on Facebook files suit
It started like any other day in Michelle Mickens鈥 high school English classroom at Oglethorpe County High School in Lexington, Georgia, near Athens. While teaching poetry to 18 teenagers on Sept. 10, she made a bargain with the class: Work through the day鈥檚 lesson and instead of starting the next day鈥檚 work early, they鈥檇 have…
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International 鈥楥ritical Memory Project鈥 challenges US to reckon with its past
The pontoon boat cut through the murky brown water of the Alabama River as it motored past the former port where enslaved Black people were once unloaded as cargo in downtown Montgomery. Aboard the watercraft were American and German academics, museum curators and leaders of memorials and nonprofit foundations. They had traveled to Alabama searching…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Coastal elites push changes that threaten Gullah-Geechee communities, culture
Editor鈥檚 note: This is the fourth and final story in the 鈥淕ullah-Geechee vs. Greed鈥 series about the fight to preserve the last of the Black communities on these islands off the southeast Atlantic coast. In the video: Amid a shrinking population, unending legal battles and decaying or nonexistent infrastructure, Gullah-Geechee culture and the people who…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Sapelo Island鈥檚 Geechee community fighting to keep its culture and soul intact
Editor鈥檚 note: This is the third story in the 鈥淕ullah-Geechee vs. Greed鈥 series about the fight to preserve the last of the Black communities on these islands off the southeast Atlantic coast. Despite sprawling thousands of acres off the Georgia shoreline, Sapelo Island has managed to keep a low profile for a very long time. Traces…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
On Hilton Head Island, Gullah people fight for their land 鈥 and their legacy
Editor鈥檚 note: This is the second story in the 鈥淕ullah-Geechee vs. Greed鈥 series about the fight to preserve the last of the Black communities on these islands off the southeast Atlantic coast. Taiwan Scott eased off the gas as he turned onto Alfred Lane in the Spanish Wells community of South Carolina鈥檚 Hilton Head Island. Overhead,…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Gullah-Geechee culture, once isolated, now on the brink as world encroaches
Editor鈥檚 note: This is the first story in the 鈥淕ullah-Geechee vs. Greed鈥 series about the fight to preserve the last of the Black communities on these islands of the southeast Atlantic coast. From the outside, Bobby Grovner鈥檚 house on Sapelo Island, Georgia, is a humble but neat affair, its freshly mowed lawn roughly abutting the…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
人兽性交 sees rising tide of violence as Hate Crimes Awareness Month kicks off
The deluge of hate crimes in the U.S. has accelerated in the last few years. But the scariest part of the constant roar of violence and mayhem is the knowledge that a large portion of those acts goes unreported. That is why the Southern Poverty Law Center has named October as Hate Crimes Awareness Month.…
