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Black-Latino Coalitions In The South

WUNC | By Laura Lee,
Frank Stasio
Published November 20, 2015 at 12:33 PM EST
In the South, African-American and Latino coalitions are coming together to support civil rights and immigration rights.
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In the South, African-American and Latino coalitions are coming together to support civil rights and immigration rights.

In the last several decades state legislatures across the South have considered measures to limit the rights and privileges of immigrant populations. In response, new coalitions have formed between traditional civil rights groups and nascent immigrant rights organizations.

Frank Stasio talks with Hana Brown, sociology professor at Wake Forest University, and Jennifer Jones, sociology professor at the University of Notre Dame about the new coalitions that been have formed between traditional civil rights groups and nascent immigrant rights organizations. Brown and Jones present their work in a panel as part of a Duke Law conference entitled: The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America.

These new groups have leveraged political power to affect change in states like Mississippi and Alabama.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Hana Brown, sociology professor at Wake Forest University, and Jennifer Jones, sociology professor at the University of Notre Dame. 

Brown and Jones present their work in a panel as part of a Duke Law conference entitled: The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America.

A live stream of the conference can be found here.

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Laura Lee
Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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