North Carolina
I'm gonna try to explain North Carolina
Introducing a new video series called "Billy Ball Explains North Carolina"—the point being to cut through all the noise and make some sense in my home state.
North Carolina
Introducing a new video series called "Billy Ball Explains North Carolina"—the point being to cut through all the noise and make some sense in my home state.
Social Media
Talking with "Capitol Tonight" about the relatively simple fix that could make social media much better in America.
Arkansas
Nathan Kousol is a member of the new group 1Verse, which also includes two defectors from North Korea, a Chinese-American from California, and a Japanese national.
Politics
When it comes to health care, which is what the federal government shutdown is about, some states will bleed. The South will gush.
Music
A kid from Arkansas and two North Korean defectors make up a new K-pop group with a remarkable origin story.
North Carolina
In 21st century America, our politicians take their cues from social media, and not the other way around. It's made debate more performative, less nuanced, and much, much dumber.
Politics
Social media is breaking us in America. You could argue it already has. But there is a solution.
Introducing a new video series called "Billy Ball Explains North Carolina"—the point being to cut through all the noise and make some sense in my home state.
Talking with "Capitol Tonight" about the relatively simple fix that could make social media much better in America.
When it comes to health care, which is what the federal government shutdown is about, some states will bleed. The South will gush.
In 21st century America, our politicians take their cues from social media, and not the other way around. It's made debate more performative, less nuanced, and much, much dumber.
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The Living South's conversation with climate educator Caroline Lewis, founder of the nationally-recognized CLEO Institute.
Caroline Lewis, "the Jane Goodall of climate change," says there's room for hope, but there's a hard road ahead.
Instead of defusing the "liberal media," this is going to prevent good information from reaching the places that many Republicans represent in Congress.
Why I chose a lighthouse to represent The Living South.
There are hundreds of demonstrations planned across the South this weekend during the “No Kings” protests. Here's what today's marchers learned from the Civil Rights Movement.
Listen to The Living South's reporting on Isaac Villegas, a NC pastor who sheltered an undocumented woman for two years in his church.
Isaac Villegas, a NC pastor, has a new book that makes a faith-based argument for immigrant justice. For two years, his Chapel Hill church sheltered a woman Trump wanted to deport.
Taken together, "Cowboy Carter," "Sinners," and Rhiannon Giddens' new festival feel like a kind of trilogy. They represent a well-earned moment — for the Black South, film, and music.
News of a religious leader's death in Europe isn't exactly what you think of as "Southern," but it's a big deal here.
Officials in President Trump's administration are, in a way, trying to erase civil rights hero Pauli Murray's story.
South Carolina native Bakari Sellers has become one of the most cogent anti-Trump voices in America. Here's how his roots in the Civil Rights Movement prepared him for this resistance.
South Carolina native Bakari Sellers has become one of the most cogent anti-Trump voices in America. Here's how his roots in the Civil Rights Movement prepared him for this resistance.