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The American South is much more than Spanish moss and plantation politics. In every city, town and rural county across the region, there are people working for a better future, continuing a centuries-long fight for real freedom, equality and opportunity. In every episode of Headlights, we bring you news, interviews and stories of people working for justice and progressive values all across the South. From community organizers to elected officials to artists and writers, business leaders and scientists, we amplify the voices of those making a difference in our Southern states.
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Gennemsnitlig lydlængde:
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Engelsk
USA
76 episoder
siden 24. april 2025
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SENESTE EPISODE 🔗
SYNOPSIS: White supremacy and Christian nationalism have long been part of the American political landscape, but in the Trump era they have gained more prominence in the mainstream of conservative politics. This week, we look at the rising tide of explicitly religious and ethnic hate groups, and ta…
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SYNOPSIS: Did the Confederate States of America ever really exist as a nation? In "The Confederacy Myth," historian Connor Williams argues that it didn't. His book reframes the Confederacy as it actually was — a failed insurrection that never governed much of anything and had the support of only a…
SYNOPSIS: The botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee has once again placed the death penalty at the center of public debate. This week, we talk to University of Richmond Law Professor Corinna Barrett Lain — one of the nation's leading death penalty scholars — about the fallacies and miscon…
SYNOPSIS: In his first weeks in office in 2025, President Donald Trump visited Western North Carolina and promised to help the mountain communities still reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Helene. The help never came. This week we talk to Chris Kromm of Facing South about his investigation o…
SYNOPSIS: Pulitzer-winning reporter John Archibald grew up in Alabama and has spent his career as a journalist immersed in the state's tangled and troubled past and present. In an illuminating conversation, he talks about the persistent problem of "white silence" in the face of the state's injustic…
SYNOPSIS: The United States is in the midst of one of the strongest waves of censorship and book-banning in our history. And nowhere is it stronger than across the South. This week, we talk to Fayetteville librarian and First Amendment advocate Molly Quinn about the fight to preserve the right to r…
SYNOPSIS: With the teaching of American history — particularly its racial history — under assault from the Trump administration and conservative state governments across the South, the Modjeska Simkins School in South Carolina is a community-based model for carrying that work forward outside the bo…
SYNOPSIS: Something remarkable has happened over the past 18 months across the U.S. and especially across the South: a mounting backlash against the explosion of data centers, surveillance cameras, and so-called artificial intelligence. This week, we talk to Tim Cywinski of the Virginia chapter of …
SYNOPSIS: Classes are back in session at colleges and universities across the South, and in many conservative-dominated states students and faculty are returning to increasingly tense cultural war zones. This week, we talk to Teresa Klein, president of the Texas chapter of the American Association …
SYNOPSIS: We return from our summer hiatus with a look at some fascinating local and state races in recent weeks in Florida and Tennessee. Democrats in both states flipped multiple seats at local levels across both states this month, and took control of some major school boards. It's been a bad set…
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