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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.

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The award-winning 15-year-old sophomore once worked out how to slow down tsunamis. Now she's focused on climate change.

Reckon talked to data privacy experts about how you can keep your personal information safe from law enforcement who may try to use data from women's online activity and devices to prosecute them for a suspected abortion.

I’m still actively healing from the trauma of purity culture. When the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe was announced my mind was flooded with memories of misguided doctrine.

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

Here's a list of questions to get reproductive care patients started talking to their doctors about how new legislation can affect their care.

Nearly every Southern state has an anti-abortion law on the books. In a post-Roe world, Southerners are asking: What happens next?

O.N.E The Duo, a Black mother and daughter country and Americana music group formed last year after Prana Supreme Diggs, the daughter of Wu-Tang Clan’s producer RZA, and Tekitha Washington the Wu-Tang’s female vocalist, convinced her mother that they should make music together.

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.

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Sharing a Juneteenth meal is a tradition for many Black family dinners. Black community staple dishes like collard greens and black-eyed peas have a legacy of commemorating the holiday.

You may know the story of Helen Keller from the film or play "The Miracle Worker," but there's much more to Keller than what's portrayed in the award-winning film.