Has the South re-segregated politically?
OPINION - With their lockstep support for the Democratic Party in the South, African-Americans are seemingly returning to the old Jim Crow days of political powerlessness...
NAACP calls for more black judges in North Carolina
In an effort to secure more African-American officials for positions on the federal bench, North Carolina's largest civil rights organization is calling on the state's two senators to nominate them...
Obama looks to South in bid to help keep his job
JAMESTOWN, N.C. (AP) - Obama's Southern strategy is at the heart of the president's three-day bus trip this week through North Carolina and Virginia...
Least segregated US metros in fast-growing South and West
(September 2011) U.S. 2010 Census results show that black-white residential segregation declined modestly since 2000, continuing the gradual pace begun in 1980...
Southern politics don't always play nationally
OPINION - I'm not arguing that the South is more racist than any other part of the country, but there are arguably varying levels on how 'comfortable' people are with outright expressions of racism...
Black businesses lose big in new 'great migration'
theGRIO REPORT - For the owners of black businesses in the North that were established and thrived on the patronage of black Southern migrants and their families, scientific findings are not necessary...
Can a black man become Mississippi governor?
OPINION - There is no reason to believe what Obama did in 2008 can't be replicated at the state-level for a man like Johnny DuPree, who has a message worth listening to...
Why is Mississippi so red when it’s so black?
OPINION - Oddly, the blackest, poorest and most federally-dependent state in America is also the most conservative state, according to a Gallup poll taken earlier this year...
Tea Party still a largely southern phenomenon
OPINION - From its inception, the Tea Party 'movement' has been touted as something new...
Slideshow: Remembering the Freedom Riders
SLIDESHOW - This week marks the start of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights Freedom Riders, who traveled by bus to confront segregation in the South...
