The American Petroleum Institute held a workshop in North Carolina last week touting its own safety standards for fracking. But the speakers didn't mention that the BP oil spill commission found API's ability to set standards is compromised by its role as the oil and gas industry's chief lobbyist.

Karen Handel, the Komen Foundation VP now alleged to have spearheaded the decision to sever funding for Planned Parenthood, was earlier known for her controversial and litigation-prone reign as Georgia's elections chief.

Why is a corporation that may soon have a market value of $100 billion persuading struggling communities like Rutherford County, N.C. to fork over taxpayer-financed subsidies?

A group in Gaston County, N.C. is determined to keep alive the memory of the labor leader, who was murdered in 1929 after crossing racial lines in her effort to unionize a local textile mill.

The Dallas-based Susan B. Komen Foundation is in the spotlight for its decision to sever funding to Planned Parenthood. But a Southern Exposure investigation a decade ago exposed other controversies, including the money it takes from polluters and pharmaceutical companies and its fierce opposition to health care reform.

After a brief hiatus, the battle over voting rights is heating up in states across the South and country as November approaches.