Nobody likes forced gratitude. It's cloying and annoying. This season is filled with artificial pleas for it. So I'm not going to do that. But I want to talk about something I saw this month that's making me give thanks for the people of the South.
ICE and Border Patrol agents are acting less like cops and more like the white terrorist groups that plagued the South for generations.
The Voting Rights Act, perhaps the most important piece of legislation in the 20th century South, is a shadow of its former self. Restoring it is an existential matter.
In the north, south, the midwest, and the west—anywhere someone has ever felt like they were getting ripped off—"Born in the USA" spoke directly to the same disaffected white men who are voting for President Trump.
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.
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.
When it comes to health care, which is what the federal government shutdown is about, some states will bleed. The South will gush.
A kid from Arkansas and two North Korean defectors make up a new K-pop group with a remarkable origin story.
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.
Social media is breaking us in America. You could argue it already has. But there is a solution.
The Living South's conversation with climate educator Caroline Lewis, founder of the nationally-recognized CLEO Institute.
Florida
Caroline Lewis, "the Jane Goodall of climate change," says there's room for hope, but there's a hard road ahead.
Politics
Instead of defusing the "liberal media," this is going to prevent good information from reaching the places that many Republicans represent in Congress.
History
Why I chose a lighthouse to represent The Living South.
Black history
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
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
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
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.
Audio
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
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.