Debbie Elliott

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Jackson residents struggling for clean water decry decades of disinvestment

Saturday, October 01, 2022

Residents of Jackson, Miss., are still trying their best to function without safe and reliable drinking water, and some decry decades of disinvestment in the state's majority-Black capital city.

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Jackson, Miss., residents struggle with basic needs as the water crisis disrupts life

Saturday, October 01, 2022

Residents in the predominantly Black city confront chronic water system outages that have them finding ways to function without a basic public service – safe and reliable drinking water.

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Residents of Jackson, Miss., remain fearful of drinking water after boil notice's end

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Officials lifted a boil water notice, but residents in Jackson, Miss., remain afraid to drink from their faucets. A water crisis left the city without clean drinking water for nearly two years.

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Her sister was killed in the Birmingham church bombing. A new book tells their story

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

In a new memoir, Lisa McNair recounts growing up in Birmingham, Ala., after her sister Denise and three other Black girls were murdered in the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church.

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Books We Love: Recommended reading for nonfiction

Sunday, August 28, 2022

NPR's Books We Love includes dozens of recommendations for new books. Today, we hear about "The Last Slave Ship," "The Power Law," and "The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein."

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The Charlottesville rally 5 years later: 'It's what you're still trying to forget'

Friday, August 12, 2022

The rally by white supremacists protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee left one counter-protester dead and several injured.

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Charlottesville plans to melt Robert E. Lee statue to create public art installation

Thursday, August 11, 2022

Charlottesville, Va., approved a plan to melt down a Robert E. Lee statue — central in a deadly and violent white nationalist rally five years ago — and put a public art installation in its place.

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Charlottesville was a wake-up call for many about the white supremacy movement

Thursday, August 11, 2022

Racial justice activists say the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., marked a turning point that emboldened far-right political violence — including the Jan. 6th violence.

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Insurances woes in coastal Louisiana make hurricane recovery difficult

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

With some major insurance companies not offering policies and small firms facing bankruptcy, residents are scrambling to find coverage for this year's hurricane season as structures remain unrepaired.

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Why Louisiana residents struggle to get property insurance during hurricane season.

Monday, July 25, 2022

Over the past two years, hurricane-related damage in Louisiana has caused some insurance companies to go out of business. Homeowners are coping with higher insurance costs.

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Turkey and the Wolf chef Mason Hereford amps up familiar recipes in new cookbook

Saturday, June 18, 2022

Mason Hereford, owner and chef of the Turkey and the Wolf restaurant in New Orleans, has made his mark in the food world by infusing regional favorites with refined touches.

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Exploring the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the U.S., brings hope

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The discovery of the ship on an Alabama river bottom has fostered a renewed hope for descendants of the Clotilda's captives, and the community they founded called Africatown.

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Republican candidates in Alabama primary are embracing Big Lie to align with Trump

Monday, May 23, 2022

Deep-red Alabama has a primary on Tuesday. And Republican candidates are trying to prove they're aligned with Donald Trump by denying the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.

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Alabama judge considers whether to block new ban on gender-affirming care for youth

Friday, May 06, 2022

A federal judge in Alabama continues hearing arguments on the state's ban on gender affirming care for trans youth. He could rule as early as Friday. The law goes into effect on Sunday.

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Doctors and parents of Alabama trans youth seek to block ban on gender-affirming care

Thursday, May 05, 2022

A federal judge is hearing arguments from doctors and parents of transgender youth who are seeking to block an Alabama law that criminalizes gender-affirming treatments for minors.

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A civil rights memorial in Alabama expands to document lynching victims' stories

Thursday, April 21, 2022

The Equal Justice Initiative addresses America's history of racial violence at a time when state lawmakers nationwide have been trying to limit teaching about divisive topics in public schools.

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Social justice groups' monuments are a counternarrative to Confederate memorials

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Two new monuments in Montgomery, Ala., are meant to provoke racial reckoning in public spaces. The creators hope they can serve as a counternarrative to monuments intended to glorify the Old South.

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A new book argues the U.S. South shapes the nation's political and cultural landscape

Saturday, March 26, 2022

NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to Cynthia Tucker and Frye Galliard about their new book, "Southernization of America: a Story of Democracy in the Balance."

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Saturday sports: Elite Eight begins; top player retires from women's tennis

Saturday, March 26, 2022

St. Peter's University continues its incredible run in the NCAA championships, the Cleveland Browns face blowback, and the world's top-ranked tennis player announces her retirement at age 25.

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The 'visible mending' trend of fixing clothes can be traced to a Japanese tradition

Saturday, March 26, 2022

The "visible mending" movement is being driven by individuals concerned about the environmental impact of new clothing. But its roots go back centuries to the Japanese tradition of sachiko.

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