SATURDAY | MAY 25, 2013
Ark. Families Fight Anti-Rural Bias – Through Action
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has said: “Rural Americans are special people. Their labor puts food on our table and gas in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.” Why, then, rural residents often wonder, is [...] 
When it comes to schools and kids, progress might actually just involve a unified push from everyone in a community – no matter how hard it looks. That’s the view of Joyce Parker, an energetic and passionate resident of Greenville, Miss. She is the director of Citizens for a Better Greenville (CBG), an organization that [...]
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I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. My father left for the United States when I was 7 years old. From the time I was 6 years old (that I can remember), I was subjected to sexual abuse by my uncle and other people who were close to my family. The physical [...]
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CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — It’s early on a Friday morning, and high school chemistry students in Victoria Dawson’s class are working equations at the board. Dawson is peppering the class of 11 girls and four boys with questions, trying to keep everyone focused as she helps correct mistakes. When a student gets one of [...]
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center says he’s not surprised the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request to revive portions of Alabama’s immigration law. Supreme Court justices on April 29 upheld a federal appeals court ruling that blocked parts of the law. SPLC attorney Sam Brooke [...]
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The conversations covered serious topics: Violence, racism, criminal justice and poverty. But participants at this past weekend’s Southern Movement Assembly in Jacksonville, Fla. believe these topics need to be addressed directly and constructively for community progress to take place. More than 300 community organizers, teachers, young people and spiritual leaders from 40 groups met [...]
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The story you are about to read is true. It resonates with a class of women who are considered disposable. It resonates with those who are situated at the very bottom of the social ladder. These women are born into a world that offers them little hope for success. Still, many succeed despite the [...]
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I live on the banks of Looney Creek in Benham, Ky., deep in the hills of Harlan County. I’m proud to say I’m a former U.S. Marine. I spent my 19th birthday in Vietnam. I came home from the war and went into the coal mines and shortly after was crushed in a rock [...]
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The Farmworker Association of Florida held its general assembly on Sunday in Apopka. The statewide assembly is held every five years to refocus the organization mission, identify issues impacting farmworkers, and prioritizing issues to guide work for the next five years. The top three issues impacting farmworkers and low-income immigrants are immigration and the need [...]
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It was 48 years ago, well before Teumbay Barnes was born, that civil rights supporters led by Martin Luther King marched together from Selma, Ala., to the capitol in Montgomery to push for voting rights for African-Americans. Yet, last week, when Barnes stepped out onto the trail to retrace their footsteps, their struggle was as [...]
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