Tiffany Trotter was a teenager when she helped lead historic protests in the aftermath George Floyd’s murder. In the 11 months since, she gave a stirring speech in front of thousands in her hometown of Mobile, Ala., she has used that momentum to continue her activism and organizing around the [...]
When Arkansas became the first state to ban healthcare for transgender youth, Rumba Yambú felt both hurt and hope. A trans organizer, Yambú has spent the past four years creating a refuge of resources for Black, brown and immigrant trans people after co-founding InTRANSitive in Little Rock, Ark. The trans [...]
President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order that would close a loophole that allows the sale of untraceable guns and accessories, and proposed new legislation for the states that would prevent high risk people from obtaining guns. The order comes in the wake of mass shootings in Atlanta and, [...]
In the 70 years that have passed since the sprawling interstate highway system was built, which destroyed many Black and brown communities throughout the country and prompted decades of ignored protests, there has been little effort by the federal government to reverse the damage. A massive new federal program could [...]
Right now, the situation in Georgia involving a freshly signed set of new voting restrictions, Gov. Brian Kemp, the Atlanta Braves, Major League Baseball and Stacey Abrams and other ballot-access advocates has all the dramatic tension of one of The Sandlot gang smacking a baseball into Hercules' domain. The fate [...]
Connor Towne O'Neill explains how the Lost Cause and Nathan Bedford Forrest help explain America in 2021.
Born close to a highly polluted area along the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana, Dr. Beverly Wright’s childhood experiences helped shape her research on the racial inequalities created by climate change. In 1992, she founded the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University in New Orleans. The organization, [...]
When I was a child, I grew up seeing essentially no one who looked like me in Alabama. I’m a transracial adoptee, so my family is white and we lived in very white neighborhoods. It was also a time when there was very little representation of Asian American and Pacific [...]
Not far from Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, where Alabama state troopers once attacked voting rights activists, a Black and transgender-led nonprofit is fighting off attacks on the lives of transgender youth. The strategy for The Knights and Orchids Society, Inc., known as TKO, takes many forms. On social media, TKO [...]
Phyllis Hill was born in 1979 in Hazelhurst, Ga., a small predominantly white city of 5,000 people. Her grandmother, a staunch missionary Baptist and an educator, primarily raised her and inspired her to become a prominent Black leader and organizer in the South, as well as having a deep appreciation [...]
