Florida
We can't give up hope on climate change, one of the South's top climate educators says
Caroline Lewis, "the Jane Goodall of climate change," says there's room for hope, but there's a hard road ahead.
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.
Politics
Gutting PBS and NPR is a big deal in the South
Instead of defusing the "liberal media," this is going to prevent good information from reaching the places that many Republicans represent in Congress.
History
The Living South has a logo now
Why I chose a lighthouse to represent The Living South.
Black history
Video: What today's protesters learned from the Civil Rights Movement
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.
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.
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.