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John Eisenberg talks with the Gulf States Newsroom about the Black quarterbacks who helped change the NFL, as well as the players who never got the chance. -
Delaney Nolan discusses her report for The Guardian that revealed a spike in heat-related illness calls among New Orleans’ unhoused people this summer.
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For one family of farmers in Louisiana, this year’s record-breaking extreme heat is taking a toll on both their crops and their health.
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The Claiborne Avenue Alliance hopes a study on the health impacts caused by the expressway will support efforts to remediate and potentially remove the highway.
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Dolabriel Curry-Hurst’s January power bill in Alabama jumped above $700 — more than twice of what she owed the previous year.
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The seven strikes in the region signify a slow-growing labor movement that gained momentum in 2021.
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This has been a record-breaking summer across the country and particularly in the Gulf South in August.
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Mississippi has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the country. The state is taking a community-centered approach to improving the health of Black moms and babies.
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Lawyers for the state defended Alabama’s new congressional map before a panel of judges who previously ruled the 2021 map violated the Voting Rights Act.
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Aeroflow Healthcare has been pushing state lawmakers to end sales tax on necessary items such as diapers, breast pumps and other incontinence products.
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The Gulf States Newsroom investigates utility billing issues impacting residents in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
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After a fire destroyed their last apartment in 2019, Kenneth Tyrone King and his family recently saved up enough money to rent a new place in Birmingham,…
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In a large auditorium in rural Plaquemines Parish, La., hundreds of commercial fishers and processing plant workers got their shot in the arm last week.…
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The vote on whether or not to unionize the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime chance for a big union win in the South.…
The Regional Team:
Priska Neely, managing editor based at WBHM in Birmingham
Rashah McChesney, senior content editor at WBHM in Birmingham
Orlando Flores Jr., digital editor based at WWNO in New Orleans
Drew Hawkins, health equity reporter based at WWNO in New Orleans
Stephan Bisaha, wealth and poverty reporter based at WBHM in Birmingham
Joseph King, Gulf States Newsroom sports & culture reporting fellow based at WBHM in Birmingham
Danny McArthur, environmental justice reporter based at Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson
Maya Miller, community engagement reporter based in Jackson