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LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Food Resources Across the South
November 06, 2025
A list of community fridges, food pantries, assistance programs, mission centers, and more offering food resources to unhoused and food-insecure communities. Read more via Scalawag: Food Resources Across the South.
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Sinners, the South, and the Price of Playing the Blues
April 25, 2025
While the new film celebrates the complexities of Black life through juke joints, these sacred spaces in the rural South are nearing extinction.
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Behind the Plants: Living in the Shadow of Industry on Cancer Alley
April 17, 2025
Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans lies a 150-mile stretch along the Mississippi River known as Cancer Alley. This region hosts over 150 petrochemical facilities and oil refineries—the highest concentration of such industries in the Western Hemisphere.
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Liberation Lineages
March 04, 2025
A photo series celebrating lineages of liberation through Afro-descendant land stewardship across South Texas, Western Cuba, and la Costa Chica de México.
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After Helene and Milton, Farmworkers Play an Outsized Role in the Cleanup
December 18, 2024
A Futuro Media, Center for Public Integrity, and Columbia Journalism School investigation found the disaster recovery and cleanup crews post-climate disasters are disproportionately made up of immigrants and often receive little if any formal training.
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Weathering Storms
August 13, 2024
An in-depth look at why people don’t leave disaster-prone communities.
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Salt, Soil, and Supper
May 01, 2023
Coming this summer, the magazine is launching Salt, Soil & Supper as its own vertical, which highlights Southern agriculture, geographies, environments, and food justice — and the connections thereof.
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