From Facing South, the online magazine of the Institute for Southern Studies.
On July 1, a video appeared on BP's website featuring renegade scientist Ivor van Heerden -- a marine specialist who, as Facing South…
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A long standing argument is that the lieutenant governor of Texas is more powerful than the governor. It’s that way by design. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, Texas had to endure the…
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Dept. of Homophobia
It's been just over a year since Fort Worth police, with Texas Alcohol and Beverage Control agents in tow, stormed into the Rainbow Lounge, a gay bar. They arrested seven patrons for…
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From Facing South, the online magazine of the Institute for Southern Studies.
Controversy erupted this week after Shirley Sherrod -- a black U.S. Department of Agriculture official in Georgia -- was fired after conservative pundits…
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Carlos Roybal always thought of himself as an American. Born in Chile, he’d lived in the United States legally since he was five months old, growing up in a middle-class Miami neighborhood. In 2006, Roybal…
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Look, I don't subscribe to the "citizen journalist" title because a) I don't have a journalism degree and b) I don't have any degree. I much prefer the pajama-wearing, beer-drinking blogger stereotype because, as I can confirm for you right[…]
