Southern states' anti-protest bills face First Amendment challenges As legislative sessions wind down, Republicans in states across the South are still pushing bills that could lead to mass arrests of protesters. Meanwhile, lawsuits have been filed against new anti-protest laws recently passed in Florida and Louisiana. (7/14/2021) Read More > VOICES: On UNC's troubled racial past and present Geeta N. Kapur, a North Carolina civil rights attorney and UNC-Chapel Hill alumna who has a book coming out in August about the school's fraught racial history, says it should come as no surprise that journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones — a Black woman bold enough to speak truth to power — was initially denied tenure by the school and then granted it only begrudgingly. Tenure would have given her a degree of academic freedom to reveal other truths that some don't want to hear. (7/7/2021) Read More > Oriaku Njoku on envisioning a South where reproductive justice is a reality The co-founder and executive director of the Atlanta-based abortion fund Access Reproductive Care-Southeast talks to Facing South about the critical difference between reproductive rights and reproductive justice, President Biden's proposal to scrap a budget provision banning federally funded abortions, and what a South with true reproductive freedom would look like. (7/15/2021) Read More > VOICES: Southern schools need more, not less, critical race theory CRT teaching bans are being imposed in states and local communities nationwide. But their distorting effects on young people's understanding of their nation's past and present will take a particularly heavy toll in the South — the heart of Black America and the repository of so much Black history. (7/15/2021) Read More > Arkansas Marshallese commemorate 75th anniversary of U.S. nuclear testing At a series of events hosted by the Marshallese Educational Initiative, Marshallese leaders in Arkansas discussed the public health inequities their community faces as a result of the U.S. nuclear legacy, climate change, and government policy. (7/13/2021) Read More > VOICES: How students can fight back against attacks on their voting rights Texas's SB7 anti-voter bill, which was set to be considered in a special session until Democratic lawmakers fled the state to block it, is part of a wave of nearly 400 such measures introduced in state legislatures this year in reaction to 2020's unprecedented turnout by young people. There are several steps they can take to fight back, says Jeffrey Clemmons, a student in Texas and an Andrew Goodman Foundation ambassador. (7/15/2021) Read More > | 
