The state's recent election-law overhaul stripped away more than a decade’s worth of reforms that had dramatically increased ballot access for African-Americans.

When 16-year-old Barbara Rose Johns approached her teacher about the situation, she was told to “do something about it.” And she did.

The mayor of Jackson, Miss., believed that economic development and the creation of jobs must be a collective rather than individual effort.

Community-based groups beat the government and industry in responding to the needs of 300,000 people affected by the chemical spill in West Virginia's Elk River.

About 80,000 people marched in North Carolina to push back against the conservative agenda, the largest protest in the South since Selma in 1965.

Taking a cue from North Carolina, citizen protesters in Georgia are planning actions against the state's right-wing policies at the start of the legislative session next week.

North Carolina, long considered the South's most moderate state, has taken a hard right turn, but Moral Mondays protesters are fighting back. Is this where American politics is heading? Also on the show, the paint industry is ordered to clean up its mess.

Essential reading about the money trail in North Carolina politics, the far-right agenda it has helped usher through and why this story should matter to everyone in America.

Big money has moved North Carolina far to the right politically but citizen protesters are fighting back against “extremist policies.” See why the conflict unfolding in North Carolina could be a testing ground for what’s to come in every state.

Meet the up-and-coming activists who are leading the grass-roots movements for economic, social and environmental justice.