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Who's watching state lawmakers?
Chris Kromm The number of full-time reporters covering state politics for newspapers has declined significantly over the past decade, even as more critical policy decisions are falling to the states....
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Who is watching the elections?
Chris Kromm The countdown is on ... and Facing South needs your support today to continue watchdogging the money and the vote. Culture
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As the South goes...
Chris Kromm When you support the Institute for Southern Studies and our work for a better South, you invest in a vision of a more just, democratic and healthy future that can send ripples of change...
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ISS/Facing South seeks communications summer intern
Allie Yee The Institute for Southern Studies/Facing South is seeking a communications intern to work with us this summer. This paid summer internship will provide an opportunity for a Pell...
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Moral Monday photo exhibit opens in North Carolina
Allie Yee Since launching in 2013, the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina has engaged thousands of people across the state in protests against regressive policies. A photo exhibit that opens Feb....
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"The work that justice and equality call us to do"
Chris Kromm Founded by civil rights movement leaders including Rep. John Lewis, the Institute for Southern Studies has worked for 45 years to build a better South. Help us continue this vital work for...
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Remembering Appalachian folksinging legend Jean Ritchie
Sue Sturgis Born into a renowned Kentucky ballad-singing family, Ritchie went on to earn fame for preserving old songs and composing original tunes protesting the destructiveness of coal mining. She...
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Keeping our eyes on the prize
Chris Kromm For 45 years, the Institute for Southern Studies has kept our eyes on the prize of a more just, democratic and sustainable future in the South. Culture
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Black freedom fighters on the silver screen
Peter H. Wood With Nate Parker's film about Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt set to be released soon, retired Duke University history professor Peter H. Wood wonders if another much-needed teaching...
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Commemorating the life of Stetson Kennedy, the Florida muckraker who helped...
Sue Sturgis This Oct. 5 marks 100 years since the birth of Stetson Kennedy, the Florida writer and human rights activist who died in 2011 at the age of 94. The nonprofit foundation he launched while...
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Charleston workers renew region's ties to Highlander Center
Kerry Taylor The historic link between workers in the South Carolina city and the organizer training school in Tennessee was revitalized when a group of Raise Up for $15 activists from Charleston...
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Meet the organizer who helped create the soundtrack for the Poor People's...
Kerry Taylor Jimmy Collier was an organizer-musician with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the first Poor People's Campaign. The songs he composed and recorded 50 years ago continue to...
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VOICES OF RESISTANCE: Poetry as a portal to social change
Rebekah Barber In South Carolina, social worker Marlanda Dekine uses poetry to open up dialogue and break down barriers that divide her community. Culture Demographics
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Tarana Burke reclaims #MeToo movement with HBCU tour
Rebekah Barber This Sexual Assault Awareness Month, #MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke launched a tour of historically black colleges to refocus the conversation around sexual assault to be more...
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Efforts to overturn wrongful criminal convictions are growing
Rebekah Barber The Emmy-nominated docudrama "When They See Us" sparked a national conversation about wrongful convictions and how they disproportionately steal the freedom of Black and Brown people....
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The escalating fight over racist monuments in Southern communities
Benjamin BarberAcross the South, a growing number of communities are wrestling with Confederate and other white-supremacist symbols in public spaces, as state laws complicate their handling.CultureHistory
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North Carolina visual artist auctions work for racial justice
Keona FrasierAntoine Williams, an art professor at Guilford College in Greensboro, produces mixed media artwork informed by critical race theory. He recently auctioned off two of his works to benefit...
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A conversation with Freeman Vines, maker of hanging tree guitars
Olivia PaschalThe luthier's new book "Hanging Tree Guitars" chronicles his life's work through the lens of guitars he made out of a tree where a Black man was lynched near his home in Fountain, North...
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From the Archives: Building a new Southern freedom movement
Southern ExposureA 1988 issue of Southern Exposure magazine, the print forerunner to Facing South, reprinted a visionary address by North Carolina-based organizer Mab Segrest calling for an...
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VOICES: A lament for white evangelicals' response to COVID-19
Dylan McLemoreHeather McLemoreA professor confronts the deadly role misinformation has played in the white evangelical Christian church amid a COVID-19 resurgence in his home state of Arkansas, and he...
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