Faith
Audio: NC pastor Isaac Villegas on giving sanctuary to undocumented people
Listen to The Living South's reporting on Isaac Villegas, a NC pastor who sheltered an undocumented woman for two years in his church.
Billy Ball
Billy Ball is an award-winning journalist from North Carolina and senior editor at Cardinal & Pine, an online news site. He has bylines in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, MSNBC, and others.
North Carolina
This NC pastor says Jesus would have protected undocumented people
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.
North Carolina
Rhiannon Giddens, "Sinners," Beyoncé, and a sparkling moment for Black roots music
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
Video: Pope Francis' death is a big deal in the South
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
Video: Erasing civil rights hero Pauli Murray
Officials in President Trump's administration are, in a way, trying to erase civil rights hero Pauli Murray's story.
Audio
Audio: CNN's Bakari Sellers on optimism, his dad's civil rights heroism, and journalism's comeback
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
For some, Bakari Sellers is the voice of the resistance to MAGA. But his fight goes back much farther than Trump.
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
Introducing 'Today in Southern 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.
Audio
AUDIO: America needs firefighters. This public school teacher has a plan to make more of them.
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.
Tennessee
This high school teacher's training wildfire fighters. There's nothing else like his class in America.
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.
North Carolina
AUDIO: NC's Anderson Clayton is America's youngest political party leader. She might be its fieriest too.
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.
North Carolina
Liberals think Democrats aren't pushing back hard enough. Is NC's Anderson Clayton the answer?
There is a line of thought that Democrats don't have guts. North Carolina's fiery liberal leader wants to change all that.