North Carolina’s best-known newspaper, The News & Observer, has a surprising history and complicated legacy. Few people understand the struggles and power of newspapers better than Rob Christensen, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of ...

Three Southern Opinion columnists on the region and its outsize role in national politics. By Jamelle Bouie David French and Tressie McMillan Cottom Produced by Derek Arthur Three Southern Opinion ...

It’s Interesting to me right now watching which Southerners are teeing themselves up to be the country fried steak version of Gavin Newsom, so I’m watching that play out. Country fried steak. Gavin ...

NOTE: This program first aired Sept. 8, 2025. The originally scheduled program for Monday, Nov. 24, had to be postponed due to a personal conflict with our guest, Seth Harp, author of "The Fort Bragg ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gibbs Knotts, Coastal Carolina University and Christopher A. Cooper, Western Carolina ...