Welcome to the Progressive South! We are a nonprofit media platform for progressive voices and values in the Southern U.S. We aim to provide news about goings-on in these states and amplify the important work of people and organizations across the region. You can find more information at the “About” tab, and check out our always-growing list of useful links at “Resources.” Our first project is our podcast:
A weekly program featuring a regional news roundup and interviews with people doing good work across the South. Plus, a little arts and culture. Available here as well as on Spotify, Apple and YouTube. Subscribe, like and share!
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Headlights Ep. 54: The Leftists of Texas
Texas conservatives like to cultivate an image of the state as a frontier of rugged individualism and unbridled capitalism. But it is also the land of the Cowboy Strike and the Texas People’s Party, a contested terrain with an often overlooked history of radical politics. That’s what writer and Austin native David Griscom brings to…
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The Memphis Massacre
Carving up its congressional district is just Tennessee’s latest assault on its largest Black-majority city.
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Headlights Ep. 53: The Memphis Massacre
When the all-white Republican supermajority in the Tennessee Legislature carved up Memphis into three congressional districts during the first week of May, they insisted that race had nothing to do with it. But when it comes to Memphis, race always matters. This week, we listen to the voices raised in protest during Tennessee’s rapid-fire special…
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Headlights Ep. 52: Inside the Evangelical Right
South Carolina writer Rick Pidcock grew up in the conservative evangelical movement and has become an astute observer and critic of it. As a columnist for Baptist News, he has been raising alarms about the ongoing growth of Christian nationalism.
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Headlights Ep. 51: The Trans Panic Continues
Another year, another cluster of hateful anti-transgender bills proposed in our state legislatures. This week, we round up some of the worst laws passed this spring in Southern states to further bully and harass trans people.
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Elon Musk’s Trail of Destruction
Conservative leaders across the South are deferential to the richest man in the world, if not outright subservient to him. And he is taking advantage of that in several ways.
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Headlights Ep. 50: Rev. Lawson’s Legacy of Nonviolence
Nonviolent resistance was the core strategy of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s, and its chief architect alongside Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was another pastor, Rev. James Lawson Jr. Like King, he studied the success of Gandhi’s anti-colonial resistance in India, and he answered King’s call to teach its precepts to…
About The Progressive South
The Progressive South is a nonprofit media platform for progressive voices and values in the Southern U.S. We want to help inform and connect people across the South doing good work and fighting good fights. We are based in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the headwaters of the Tennessee River.