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What the walkout by George's poultry workers accomplished
Rachell Sanchez-SmithOlivia PaschalJust over two months ago, more than two dozen workers staged a walkout at a George's poultry plant in Arkansas over conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic....
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Southern lawmakers seek new ways to criminalize protesting
Billy CorriherIn the wake of historic Black Lives Matter protests, Republican lawmakers in Southern states have introduced two dozen bills this year that could lead to new criminal charges for...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Corporations' political money disconnect on transgender rights
Sue SturgisA growing number of companies are publicly condemning discrimination against transgender people and taking steps to support trans employees. But some of the same businesses are also funding...
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Al menos 9,000 trabajadores de Arkansas contrajeron COVID-19 mientras la...
Mary HenniganAbby ZimmardiRachell Sanchez-SmithEl gigante avícola Tyson Foods Inc., el tercer empleador más grande de Arkansas, reportó 2.866 casos de COVID-19 en sus lugares de trabajo, esta figura es...
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At least 9,000 Arkansas workers caught COVID-19 as pandemic overwhelmed...
Mary HenniganAbby ZimmardiRachell Sanchez-SmithPoultry giant Tyson Foods Inc., the third-largest employer in Arkansas, accounted for nearly one-third of the state's 9,065 sickened workers across all...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Nonprofit 'donor privacy' bills would make politics less...
Sue SturgisMeasures under consideration in states including several in the South are being promoted as protecting the privacy of people who donate to nonprofits. But because the bills don't distinguish...
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Arkansas Marshallese commemorate 75th anniversary of U.S. nuclear testing
Olivia PaschalAt 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...
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VOICES: A lament for white evangelicals' response to COVID-19
Dylan McLemoreHeather McLemoreA professor confronts the deadly role misinformation has played in the white evangelical Christian church amid a COVID-19 resurgence in his home state of Arkansas, and he...
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Economist Rebecca Boehm on Tyson's stranglehold over Arkansas's poultry industry
Olivia PaschalA new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists finds an "alarming" level of concentration in Arkansas's chicken industry. Facing South spoke with the report's author about the...
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From the Archives: The Elaine Massacre
Southern ExposureThis week marks the 102nd anniversary of the Elaine Massacre in Arkansas, when a union organizing attempt by Black sharecroppers was met with deadly violence by mobs of white people....
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From the Archives: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
Southern ExposureIn 1974, Southern Exposure, the print forerunner to Facing South, published an issue of oral histories that included recollections of people who'd been involved with the Southern...
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New GOP congressional maps diminish the power of voters of color
Elisha BrownThe Republicans who control legislatures in Arkansas, North Carolina, and Texas have drawn congressional maps that favor their party and disadvantage voters of color. Meanwhile, an...
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Southern lawmakers want more limits on citizen-initiated ballot measures
Billy CorriherArkansas and Florida are the only Southern states that still allow citizens to place questions on the ballot, but Republican lawmakers there want to erect new barriers to this form of...
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VOICES: Southern legislatures must dismantle poverty traps for disabled people
Dom KellyThe poverty rate for people with disabilities is more than double that of our nondisabled counterparts, and the disparity is being driven by state policy choices that force us into...
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