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07/12/11 A dangerous heat wave slowly began to ease in the nation's heartland, but excessive heat warnings are in place from western Oklahoma to Connecticut, and from the Deep South to the Ohio Valley.
07/07/11 IT WAS a shabby old book, falling apart and with the front cover missing, and no-one at the church bazaar in America's Deep South was really very interested.
06/29/11 In 1995, my family uprooted from my familiar New England beaches and replanted in the Deep South. My father, a Jackson native, wanted to live closer to his family and show his northern-born children his old stomping grounds.
06/15/11 The most current county-level analysis finds large disparities nationwide; women fare worse than men, and people in Appalachia, the Deep South, and Northern Texas live the shortest lives While people in Japan, Canada, and other nations are enjoying significant gains in life expectancy every year, most counties within the United States are falling behind, according to a new study by the Institute ...
06/02/11 Feel the beat in Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans on a self-drive tour through the legendary Deep South of America.
05/18/11 Is God punishing the Deep South? In the first half of May, a series of devastating tornadoes ripped through Alabama, and as this article goes to press, swaths of greater Memphis, Tenn., are underwater, and levees are being released all along the Mississippi River.
05/16/11 Listen to the Audio GWEN IFILL: Fifty years ago this month, a group of young men and women boarded commercial buses in Washington, D.C., headed for the Deep South. The 13 members of the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, led by James Farmer, planned a deliberate, but nonviolent challenge to the Jim Crow laws in the Southern states. From May until November, 1961, hundreds of Americans, black ...
05/15/11 The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated travel on interstate buses in the Deep South. The American Experience film, airing Monday on PBS, has been generating buzz on the film festival circuit ever since its showing at Sundance in January. AP/tisd
05/14/11 Mothers of American presidents can be unusual. Virginia Kelley, whose first born was Bill Clinton, was a lively soul from deepest Arkansas with a penchant for men, racehorses and make-up. Or take Lillian Carter, the mother of Jimmy: nurse and Peace Corps volunteer, a daughter of the Deep South who put desegregation into practice long before civil rights took wing. But none surely is as ...
05/12/11 In 1961: A mixed-race group of Freedom Riders boarded Greyhound and Trailways buses, ate at bus station lunch counters, slept in people's homes (because hotels were segregated), and endured beatings, arrests and jail as they integrated bus terminals in the Deep South.
05/12/11 With a thrillers pace and the emotional heft of a battlefield journal, PBSs remarkable new documentary "Freedom Riders" recounts the bloody anti-segregation bus rides of 1961 that helped kill Jim Crow in the Deep South.Combining new interview...
05/03/11 The interracial group was determined to desegregate bus terminals across the Deep South
05/01/11 They were three guys from Philadelphia who coalesced around a cable TV business venture in the Deep South in the early 1960s that looked promising and came with the added benefit of attractive financing and tax advantages. By the 1970s and '80s, Ralph Roberts, Julian Brodsky, and Daniel Aaron were friends, tennis partners, and cable-deal junkies.
04/30/11 MSNBC - NEW ORLEANS, La - A surge of water not seen since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 is forecast in coming days to test the enormous levees lining the Mississippi River on its course through the Deep South, adding another element of danger to a region already raked by deadly tornadoes and thunderstorms.
04/28/11 A surge of water not seen since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 is forecast to test the levees along the Mississippi River as the giant waterway travels through the Deep South.
04/28/11 Yesterday was an electrifying day for meteorologists. What we were watching across the Deep South was nothing short of historic, dozens of (large/violent/long-lasting) tornadoes on the ground - simultaneously. It appears that Alabama was hardest hit, but the number and intensity of tornadoes may have been greater than any day since April 3, 1974, when the "Super Outbreak" spawned 148 tornadoes ...
04/28/11 A widespread outbreak of severe weather across the Deep South may be one for the record books as the National Weather Service received reports of more than 150 tornadoes.
04/27/11 Justin Combs is a promising cornerback prospect from New York who'd love noth ing better than to play college football in the Deep South.
04/27/11 If you want to see a wild ocelot, then Deep South Texas is the only place in the nation where the endangered cats make their home. However, there are estimated to be less than 50 of the elusive cats remaining in southernmost Texas.
04/23/11 Nearly 50 years ago, Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr. became a part of history when he and other people set out to defy Jim Crow laws in the Deep South. On Friday, Lafayette spoke at Kennesaw State Unive...
04/20/11 (CNN) -- The threat of severe thunderstorms continued Wednesday to hang over portions of the Deep South and into the Northeast, after another round of violent weather swept through the country the day before. | 
