Voting rights attorney Allison Riggs on fighting for an inclusive democracy An attorney with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Riggs led the successful legal fight against North Carolina's 2013 voter suppression bill. She talked with Facing South about the ongoing attacks on voting, legal strategies for combating new voter suppression bills, and her hopes for the future of voting rights. (4/8/2021) Read More > VOICES: Georgia's new voting law is an assault on our democracy's future Young people are among those whose access to the ballot would be limited under a restrictive new voting law passed in Georgia, a state that once led the nation in empowering the youth vote. Congress should act to lift these limits and shore up young people's eroding faith in democracy by passing the For the People Act. (4/1/2021) Read More > With big business backing, GOP revamps appellate courts in Southern states The Texas legislature may consolidate the state's appeals courts, where Democrats have gained seats in recent elections — and watchdogs say the changes could violate the Voting Rights Act. The plan is being pushed by a big business group that has spent nearly $1 million to back GOP judicial candidates. A new West Virginia appeals court also had the support of big business. (4/8/2021) Read More > The long road to nuclear justice for the Marshallese people U.S. nuclear weapons testing in the 1940s and 1950s displaced residents of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, many of whom later settled in Northwest Arkansas. Decades later, they're still fighting for justice for the devastation of their health and homeland, now also threatened by rising seas from climate change. (4/2/2021) Read More > | 
