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A New Way to Fight Discrimination: Living Libraries

By DC Editors - June 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

A growing citizen movement known as Living Libraries is designed to smash stereotypes and prejudice through dialogue

The New York Times Stereotypes Southerners, Again

By Jenny Oak Tree - June 7, 2018 5 Comments

The South isn’t as backwards as one assumes. There are millennials with a passion for social justice, black women who are working corporate jobs, and white blue collars in rural Alabama working in factories.

The long roots of voter suppression in the United States

By DC Editors - April 26, 2018 Leave a Comment

Slaves had no civil rights, couldn’t vote, and would not in fact be represented by those elected on this basis

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is playing a dangerous game

By Jenny Oak Tree - April 25, 2018 Leave a Comment

The juxtaposition of Kay Ivey promoting the validity of Confederate statues with the first monument dedicated to the era Alabama wants to forget, that of lynching mobs and racial terror is odd and uniquely Alabamian.