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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.
Faith
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.
Black history
Officials in President Trump's administration are, in a way, trying to erase civil rights hero Pauli Murray's story.
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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.
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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.
History
Today, how the first Southern president since secession brought America into the Great War, and remade the federal government in the South's image.
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A public school teacher in Tennessee has created a one-of-a-kind program giving high schoolers hands-on training in prescribed preventing and fighting wildfires.
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.
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.
America is in desperate need of firefighters right now. So a public school teacher in Tennessee has created a one-of-a-kind program giving high schoolers hands-on training.
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America is in desperate need of firefighters right now. So a public school teacher in Tennessee has created a one-of-a-kind program giving high schoolers hands-on training.
I talked to Anderson Clayton, a 27-year-old wunderkind from Roxboro, North Carolina, about staying positive in hard times, internet trolls, and her heroes.
There is a line of thought that Democrats don't have guts. North Carolina's fiery liberal leader wants to change all that.
The Living South is growing the old-fashioned way, with people telling people they like it.
Chris Haley, nephew of the famous journalist Alex Haley, talked to The Living South about continuing his uncle's work preserving Black history.
The Pulitzer-winning author and journalist Alex Haley was "woke" before there was such a thing. Today, his nephew, Chris, continues his work preserving the Black family tree.
For the written version of this story, click here. Since he opened City Limits BBQ in West Columbia, S.C., in 2016, Robbie Robinson has become one of just two barbecue pitmasters to make the semifinals twice for best chef in the James Beard Awards, which, for chefs, is like
In West Columbia, South Carolina, about four miles from where the Saluda and Broad rivers become the Congaree, at the bottom of a cracked and uneven driveway, in a plain white building flying South Carolina's blue-and-white palmetto flag, lies one of the best restaurants in America.
Hear my conversation with Rodney Smith Jr., an Alabama man who's toured the U.S. 19 times mowing lawns for vulnerable people.
Rodney Smith Jr., an immigrant from Bermuda, was searching for himself. He found it by helping an elderly Alabama man who was struggling to mow his lawn. This is Rodney's story.
This is "The Living South," where journalist Billy Ball interviews game-changing Southerners. In this recording, I explain why I'm doing this.
"Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.” – “Absalom, Absalom” Welcome to The Living South. I am a native Southerner and a journalist. I started this page because I wanted to