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"Because we know people can be healed by nature, we must take better care of nature. It's reciprocal and it has everything to do with climate change.

Ever been misled by a large corporation? It happens all the time.

A round up of voting rights news from the past few weeks. The highs – voting rights expansion in North Carolina – and the lows – the removal of ballot boxes in Georgia.

The U.S. Senator from West Virginia said he would never vote to spend money on climate change. Then he changed his mind.

After multiple defeats to its green agenda, the Biden administration has been reduced to incremental actions on climate change. But climate activists don't think it's enough. They want him to declare a climate emergency.

Georgia trans activist Cazembe Murphy Jackson talks about his abortion as a trans man.

Nearly 50 House Republicans crossed the aisle to pass help pass a bill that would protect same-sex and interracial marriage.

In 2017, the state of Alabama passed a law that restored voting rights for some Alabamaians and established a process for others to regain their voting rights. Because the state has not dedicated time or resources to promote the new law, now five years later, few of the impacted people have heard about their voting rights restoration.

With same-sex marriage now in the crosshairs of some Supreme Court justices, one queer couple in Mobile, Alabama, decided to bring forward their marriage plans by almost 18 months.

“They are always saying we’re not going to prosecute women under this statute for having an abortion. But there is a whole buffet of criminal laws you can prosecute under."

The road to the Voting Rights Act may have gone through Mississippi but, nearly sixty years later, Jim Crow-era laws still keep hundreds of thousands of people from voting in the Deep South.

One drop-off at a time, college students are arming themselves with preventive emergency contraception — which could soon be one of the last legal chances to stop a pregnancy

The South has a front-row seat to the consequences of climate change, but it also has brilliant minds offering answers.

Over the past year, Reckon staff have written about some of the South's most interesting, inspirational, and brilliant Black people. Here's a little sprinkling of the best.

The Debt Collective, a debt-elimination advocacy group, and their Rolling Jubilee Fund partnered to cancel $1.7 million in student debt for former Bennett College students, a private women's HBCU in Greensboro, North Carolina.