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Senate runoff brings Mississippi’s painful past to the fore

To James Miles, the abandoned bridge about a mile from his home is little more than a directional landmark. Most of the time, anyway. As Mississippi prepares for a Senate runoff on Tuesday, the structure known as the Hanging Bridge – where six African-Americans, including two pregnant women, were brutally lynched in 1918 and 1942 – has been heavy on his mind.

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Carmen Sisson November 26, 2018 May 19, 2019Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, lynching, Meridian, Mississippi, politics, Shubuta 0

At Kentucky’s Fancy Farm, a Senate race heats up

If you want to be elected in the Bluegrass State, there’s only one place to be the first Saturday in August: Fancy Farm, Ky., where old-fashioned politics meets dyed-in-the-wool religion, and the differences are evened out by the glorious, gluttonous, gastronomic magic of charred pork and mutton at the annual Fancy Farm picnic-cum-political rally.

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Carmen Sisson August 9, 2010 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Fancy Farm, Jack Conway, Kentucky, politics, Rand Paul, Senate, TIME 0

What Alabama kids take from Obama’s Inauguration, Knox Part 3 of 3

Obama Inauguration

And then, suddenly, it all came together – why they’d needed to be here so much, why they’d endured the arduous trek just to squint at a distant screen. As they reached the foot of the Washington Monument, so starkly white against a perfect blue sky, encircled by American flags, another sight resonated even more deeply: a rainbow of people of every size, race, and age standing together.

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Carmen Sisson January 21, 2009 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, education, inauguration, Obama, politics, Selma 0

The long road to the Obama inauguration, Knox Part 2 of 3

Inauguration

As one of the adults traveling this week from Selma to the nation’s capital with a group from Knox Elementary School, she brings different emotions and motivations than the idealistic young students, all clad in their new winter clothing and visions of a race-free America. For her and many of the other adults, this is a spiritual journey, both an intensely personal moment and a time to celebrate what they and their forebears suffered and accomplished, as well as to see the opportunities facing a new generation.

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Carmen Sisson January 19, 2009 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, education, inauguration, Obama, politics, Selma 3

Knox Elementary goes to Washington for the inauguration, Part 1 of 3

Selma students

Reddick wants the children to see beyond graffiti-strewn walls, beyond limitations, beyond a town where violence is a daily reality. She wants them to witness something people in this racially torn bastion of the civil rights movement never believed was possible. She wants them to see a black man become president of the United States, to hear his voice ring out across the National Mall and know that anything is possible.

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Carmen Sisson January 15, 2009 August 17, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, education, inauguration, Obama, politics, Selma 4

Detroit’s fall gives power to rival Dixie

Mercedes-Benz

Alabama has been particularly aggressive. Since the early 1990s, the state has offered German-based Mercedes, Japan’s Honda and South Korea’s Hyundai a staggering $1 billion in tax incentives, abatements and infrastructure improvements to build plants there. The return on investment has been $7 billion, creating almost 50,000 direct jobs and another 70,000 in sectors like parts suppliers. The population of the town of Vance, where the 4,000-employee Mercedes factory is located, has leapt from 500 to 2,000. Unlike the local sawmill, fertilizer plant or rock quarry, residents feel Mercedes “is going to survive, no matter what,” says one woman who has five family members working there. “That’s what made Vance what it is.”

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Carmen Sisson December 22, 2008 August 17, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, automakers, economy, politics, recession, TIME, Vance 0
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