In the middle of the night on November 11, 2011, Jenn Shapland, a 24-year-old graduate student in the English…
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Many feel the Trump administration’s proposed border wall is toxic and divisive. But in the Rio Grande Valley, it’s…
Nearly a year ago today, New Orleans residents cheered, sang, and danced in the streets as they watched the city…
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Edward Minor had a paper due for his English class on income inequality at Wayne County Community College in…
Rufus Davis, the second black mayor of Camilla, Georgia, lives with his mother in a white ranch-style home nestled a…
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There’s a big, early-season storm blowing itself out in the Gulf of Mexico...There are over 700 known dead so…
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“Never let a white man know how much you really do know about anything except hard work,” John Dabney once said to…
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It’s late afternoon on a Friday in early December, and the neon “open” sign on Wild Iris’s glass storefront glows…
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On Tuesday, Alana Agron’s phone rang unexpectedly. It was the admissions office at Washington University in St.…
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“We are called the laziest generation, but we’re here! Are you listening?”
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When Juan Santiago Murat Garcia entered the privately contracted Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, he…
Once a month I take a trip to the farmer’s market where I purchase meat from the butcher and fresh fruits and…
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On August 4, 2017, I sat in the waiting room of the Atlanta immigration office waiting for an immigration officer to…
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Every time Jill Lewis goes back to the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater where she worked for a decade, she sees the…
Back in 1976, when Brian Mitchell was eight years old, a teacher in his Louisiana school system asked if anyone in…
Christopher San Martin, the tiny boy pedaling the miniature red car, turned six years old in November. It probably…
The first participants of the Dixie Freedom Ride arrived just after 9 am on a bitterly cold Saturday in the parking…
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For the past nine months, Splinter has been setting up “virtual bureaus” across the country for our Think Local…
In the early 1980s, accused sexual predator Roy Moore may or may not have been barred from his hometown shopping…
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Climate change affects everyone, but in the immediate aftermath of “natural” disasters, the poorest among us suffer…
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