Unjustifiable Chapter Six: Point 14
It was a decade after Black civil rights leaders had gathered in Birmingham to make 14 points to their white peers in Birmingham, to demand acknowledgement that Black people were still treated as second class citizens.
Unjustifiable Chapter Six: Point 14
It was a decade after Black civil rights leaders had gathered in Birmingham to make 14 points to their white peers in Birmingham, to demand acknowledgement that Black people were still treated as second class citizens.
Unjustifiable Chapter 5: Who is George Sands?
Who is Officer George Sands? The Birmingham police officer had amassed more than a dozen complaints before fatally shooting Bonita Carter.
Unjustifiable Chapter Four: Catching the devil on all sides
Just sixteen years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched through Birmingham, the election of 1979 would prove pivotal for Black residents exercising their voting power.
Unjustifiable Chapter Three: ‘The Shoebox’
From 1909 to today we can now identify more than 500 shootings by police.
Unjustifiable Chapter Two: Anger and Action
Protest began to swell in Birmingham began to swell the night Bonita Carter was killed, and it grew larger and larger in the days that followed.
Unjustifiable Chapter One: ‘It was a girl in the car’
Episode One of “Unjustifiable” reconstructs the shooting of Bonita Carter, moment by moment and step by step, from the vantage points of onlookers, participants, store workers, witnesses and police.
Unjustifiable: How an overlooked moment in Birmingham history charted a path to 2020
Reckon Radio presents: “Unjustifiable,” an investigative series from Pulitzer-prize winning columnist John Archibald and Roy S. Johnson examining an overlooked moment of civil rights history in the heart of the South.
Unjustifiable: How an overlooked moment in Birmingham history charted a path to 2020
Reckon Radio presents: “Unjustifiable,” an investigative series from Pulitzer-prize winning columnist John Archibald and Roy S. Johnson examining an overlooked moment of civil rights history in the heart of the South.
Southerners share their post-election hopes, fears and visions
On the eve of the election, we decided to ask people around the South three questions: What’s something you hope happens next year? What’s something you hope never happens again? What does the South look like in four years?
Lincoln Project co-founder says voters should reject Republicans, wipe out Trumpism
This week on the Reckon Interview, we’re talking about what comes next?
How the Supreme Court has shaped the South
The Supreme Court has the power to expand our definition of civil rights. Or to limit it.
Will the ‘Doug Jones effect’ transform Southern politics?
This week on the Reckon Interview, we’re examining “the Doug Jones effect.”
Jaime Harrison takes on old power in South Carolina, offers a ‘New South’ vision
Polls show incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican, in a dead heat with his Democratic challenger, Jaime Harrison.
‘It’s not random’: How the government built a justice system that criminalizes Black Americans
One of the stunning things about current mass incarceration culture is how much it looks like it always has.
Is the South’s economy broken? The historic origins of a crisis
Dr. Stephanie M. Yates explains how today’s wealth gap can be explained by a history of policies that cut Black and Brown people out of the opportunity to accumulate wealth.
2020 has permanently changed college football
This week on the Reckon Interview, we are discussing the politics of football. The historic movements led by athletes, and the slow change of major institutions like the SEC and NCAA.
Broken by design: The long history of the South’s fragmented health care system
The Covid-19 pandemic laid bare the problems with the South’s fragmented, patchwork health care system. Nine out of 10 people in the United States who fall into the “coverage gap” live in the South. The region leads the country in high rates of chronic disease and each year we see more and more hospitals shuttering across the rural South.
To live here, you have to fight: What organizing looks like in the South
In an op-ed published on the day of his funeral, Congressman John Lewis offered one final lesson. “Democracy is not a state,” he wrote. “It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.”
How the South nearly killed women’s suffrage
This week on the Reckon Interview, we examine the South's role in larger movements for universal women's rights.
How Southern voters reshaped national politics
America's political parties have reshaped themselves based on Southern movements and ideologies.
Is the South prepared to vote during a pandemic?
No Southern state regularly votes by mail – just five states in the United States have universal vote-by-mail laws. And the emergency application of existing absentee voting laws has been a patchwork of implementation and federal court orders.
How America undermined the Voting Rights Act
From the very beginning, people have worked to undermine the voting protections enshrined in the VRA. What does that look like in 2020? Listen to this week's episode of the Reckon Interview.
