Asian American advocate Chavi Khanna Koneru on belonging in the South

Khanna Koneru is the co-founder and executive director of North Carolina Asian Americans Together, a nonprofit that promotes civic engagement among Asian American communities in the state. For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re publishing an oral history interview in which she discussed growing up in the South, navigating racial identity as a second-generation Indian American, and what led her to establish NCAAT. (5/26/2023)

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South Carolina gerrymandering case could further erode the Voting Rights Act

The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear an appeal of a ruling that ordered South Carolina to redraw its congressional map after a lower court found it discriminated against Black voters. The ruling could leave communities of color with fewer protections against racial discrimination in elections. (5/25/2023)

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From the Archives: The history of Vietnamese American shrimpers in Texas

To mark Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we're republishing a story from Southern Exposure's 2005 "East Meets South" issue about Vietnamese American shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico who, decades after facing down the Klan, faced an increasingly globalized industry. (Summer 2005)

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'We shouldn't be afraid to fight': New Orleans Starbucks workers on how organizing changed their minds on unions

We spoke with workers involved in a successful organizing drive at a Starbucks store in Louisiana's biggest city to find out what they previously thought about unions, and how the effort has changed their thinking.

Southern states are at serious risk of election subversion

A new report from the Movement Advancement Project ranks the states on their risk for election denialism and finds that more than a few states in the South are vulnerable to attempts to overturn the will of the voters. It also highlights policies that can protect elections from deniers.