Debbie Elliott
Stories
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In new memoir, John T. Edge explores Southern identity and a troubled family history
Writer John T. Edge has spent much of his career telling stories about a changing American South filtered through the lens of food and culture. Now he's talking about his troubled family's history.
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NPR-Ipsos poll: Americans don't broadly support Trump's National Guard deployments
Americans are concerned about crime, but don't broadly support President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to U.S. cities, according to a new NPR-IPSOS poll.
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Longtime University of Alabama football referee still helping the Tide roll at age 97
Eddie Conyers has been a referee during University of Alabama football practices since the 1960s. Recruited by famed coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, Conyers, now 97, is mentoring and training officials.
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A new artifact at the civil rights museum in Mississippi tells Emmett Till's story
70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, the state of Mississippi is embracing Till's story as the federal government flinches from showcasing painful moments of America's racial history.
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The long recovery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 'ground zero' for Hurricane Katrina
While much of the focus marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina is on New Orleans, where federal levees failed and flooded the city, the historic storm also decimated the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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In Mississippi, 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the recovery has been long
Former Gov. Haley Barbour reflects on the hurricane's blow to Mississippi, where 238 people were killed. He says there are lessons in the resilience of people and the government's disaster response.
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70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him
It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was killed by white men because he whistled at a white woman. Now the gun used in his death is in a museum.
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Waveland, Miss., is still recovering 20 years after Hurricane Katrina hit
Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Waveland, Miss. A deadly and destructive storm surge nearly 30 feet high washed away the town. Twenty years later, it's still trying to recover.
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In Alabama, a dredging project in Mobile Bay brings together unlikely allies
Dredging waterways for navigation is a centuries-old practice, but this project is controversial because the mud being dug out of the channel is put into other parts of Mobile Bay.
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Remembering Mother Emanuel, 10 years after racist attack on famed Charleston church
Charleston, S.C., reflects on 10 years since a racially motivated attack on the historic Emanuel AME church. A white supremacist killed 9 Black worshippers in 2015 in hopes of starting a race war.
