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*WWII veteran Joe LaNier fights racism to come home

By Carmen Sisson | Carmen K. Sisson - Making sense of the South, one story at a time. By Carmen K. Sisson | The Commercial DispatchCOLUMBUS, Miss. — The first time Joe LaNier II left Columbus, he was...

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Search for missing Mississippi woman spans decades

By Carmen Sisson | Carmen K. Sisson - Making sense of the South, one story at a time. Willie Gray and Vickie Flournoy sort through family photographs Thursday afternoon at Flournoy’s home in Columbus....

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Defending the Dream: New generation takes up Martin Luther King Jr.’s torch

By Carmen Sisson | Carmen K. Sisson - Making sense of the South, one story at a time.Members of the Dream Defenders, including Melanie Andrade (center) and Phillip Agnew (right), raise their fists in...

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Why African-Americans are moving back to the South

By Carmen Sisson | Carmen K. Sisson - Making sense of the South, one story at a time.Charlie Cox and his wife, Darlene Cox, sit in their living room Feb. 8, 2014, in West Point, Miss. The Coxes were...

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Selma’s long march, 50 years later

By Carmen Sisson | Carmen K. Sisson - Making sense of the South, one story at a time.Cars cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Feb. 14, 2015, in Selma, Alabama. The bridge was the site of “Bloody Sunday,”...

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Can churches lead on racial harmony?

By Carmen Sisson | Carmen K. Sisson - Making sense of the South, one story at a time.Oak Mountain Presbyterian Church Pastor Bob Flayhart and Urban Hope Community Church Pastor Alton Hardy smile as...

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For historic Mississippi church, a day of Thanksgiving

By Carmen Sisson | Carmen K. Sisson - Making sense of the South, one story at a time. Members of Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church gather outside the church for a picnic following services for...

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