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New Orleans takes fight against homelessness to the streets

homeless man and outreach worker

Outreach teams load their vans with granola bars and water and head into the dark, armed with nothing more than flashlights, clipboards, and hand sanitizer. They search the streets in the daytime, looking for signs of life such as bedrolls. At night, they return, hoping to find the owners. Sometimes they are asked to leave; other times, they are hailed as angels of mercy.

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Carmen Sisson December 22, 2015 January 30, 2016Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, homelessness, Louisiana, New Orleans, South, UNITY 0

Selma’s long march, 50 years later

Selma is a reflection, both good and bad, of life in Alabama’s rural Black Belt, where poverty remains entrenched. Selma has both been lifted by and bears the burden of its history. As one of the main cities in this agricultural area, many expect it to forge a renaissance and lead some of the South’s poorest counties back to prosperity while providing a glimmer of hope to an increasingly racially polarized nation.

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Carmen Sisson March 6, 2015 July 15, 2015Published Favorites, Recent Bylines African-American, Alabama, Black Belt, Bloody Sunday, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, racism, Selma, South 0

In Nashville, steel guitars mix with silicon start-ups

Modern Nashville, Tenn., exudes both a trendy and traditional ethos. It has a relaxed, yet professional atmosphere that appeals to young people. The cost of living is lower here than in many cities. By day, Millennials can make their own rules and create their own business start-up culture. At night, they can enjoy the city’s cultural and culinary offerings.

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Carmen Sisson February 1, 2015 March 11, 2015Recent Bylines business, Christian Science Monitor, economy, entrepreneurs, jobs, Millennials, Music City, Nashville, South, start-up, Tennessee 0

Search for missing Mississippi woman spans decades

Missing woman's brother

She left her clothes on the back porch. She left her gold, Hunt High School Class of ’56 ring on the dresser. She left her baby, Gloria, in her sister Betsy’s arms. And then, on a hot summer day in 1960, Lyrian Wyvonne Barry boarded a Greyhound bus bound for St. Louis and disappeared behind a cloud of Mississippi dust.

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Carmen Sisson April 6, 2013 May 21, 2015Published Favorites, Recent Bylines African-American, cold case, disappeared, Lyrian Wyvonne Barry, missing, missing persons, missing woman, Mississippi, South, The Commercial Dispatch, woman 0

*WWII veteran Joe LaNier fights racism to come home

Civil War cannon

In the 23rd Special Construction Battalion, the officers were white and the seamen and steward’s mates — basically servants — were black. “I’m from Georgia,” an officer told them. “Where I come from, there’s only two kinds of niggers — a good nigger and a dead nigger. We don’t want no dead ones.”

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Carmen Sisson June 9, 2012 May 21, 2015Published Favorites, Recent Bylines African-American, Joe Lanier II, military, Mississippi, racism, segregation, South, The Commercial Dispatch, veteran, World War II, WWII 0

Smithville, Mississippi: After tornado, an abiding faith

The post office is gone. The school is gone. City Hall is gone. Most of the churches are gone. Nearly every building in Smithville, Mississippi is gone — or so heavily damaged they will have to be demolished. The devastation from last week’s F5 tornado is so widespread, so absolute, that it’s easier to tally what remains: The telephone company. Coker’s Han-D-Mart. And an unshakeable sense of faith.

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Carmen Sisson May 2, 2011 August 16, 2014Published Favorites, Recent Bylines April 27, faith, Mississippi, religion, Smithville, South, TIME, tornado, tornado outbreak 0
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