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Stephanie Frame at her home in Dixie, W.Va., on March 16, 2019. Frame was one of several people in her community who signed up with Mined Minds, a nonprofit that promised to teach West Virginians how to write computer code and then get them good-paying jobs. (Andrew Spear/The New York Times) XNYT26 XNYT26

May 12, 2019 at 5:37 pm

Promise of coding careers dissolves in coal country VIEW

More than two dozen former students in West Virginia are pursuing a lawsuit, arguing that the nonprofit that promised to teach them coding and help...

September 15, 2018 at 11:06 am

Death toll rises as Florence crawls west, with fierce rains and rising rivers VIEW

CONWAY, S.C. — Florence, the powerful storm that has already left at least six dead and nearly 1 million people without power on the East...

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Raise Up, a sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas, on the grounds of the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., April 20, 2018. Dedicated to the victims of American white supremacy, the site demands a reckoning with with the lynching of thousands of black people in a decades-long campaign of racist terror. (Audra Melton/The New York Times) XNYT12 XNYT12

April 25, 2018 at 4:16 pm

A lynching memorial is opening in Alabama. The country has never seen anything like it VIEW

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice demands a reckoning with one of the nation’s least recognized atrocities: the lynching of thousands of black people...

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Foster Campbell, the Louisiana public service commissioner and Democratic Senate candidate, speaks to supporters in New Orleans, Nov. 17, 2016. Because of LouisianaÕs curious election process, the Senate race here is the last major national vote of 2016. The Republicans will hold a majority in any case, but Louisiana Democrats still feel the urgency. (Edmund D. Fountain/The New York Times)

November 26, 2016 at 4:28 pm

In Louisiana rancher, Democrats see a faint hope of gaining a U.S. Senate seat

Because of Louisiana’s curious election process — a nonpartisan, free-for-all primary Nov. 8, leading to a runoff of the two top finishers on Dec. 10...

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June 21, 2016 at 10:35 am

Case closed: 1964 ‘Mississippi Burning’ investigation ends

The investigation into the 1964 slayings of three civil-rights volunteers by a group of Klansmen, an inquiry that became known as the “Mississippi Burning” case,...

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Robert Gray, a long-haul trucker who is Mississippi’s Democratic nominee for governor, in Jackson, Miss., Sept. 3, 2015. Gray won the Democratic primary even though he never campaigned, and his own mother did not know he was running until she saw the ballot. (Andrea Morales/The New York Times)

September 7, 2015 at 5:00 pm

Shy trucker emerges as Democrats’ pick for Mississippi governor

Robert Gray’s victory in the Democratic primary for governor of Mississippi illustrates to some degree the forlorn state of affairs for Democrats in the South.

Dale Cox, acting district attorney for Caddo Parish in Louisiana, where more people were sentenced to death per capita than in any other U.S. county from 2010 to 2014, at the downtown courthouse in Shreveport, La., June 23. 2015. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s much-discussed dissent from the court’s ruling on lethal injection spotlights how about half of all death sentences have come out of just 29 U.S. counties. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times)

July 7, 2015 at 5:23 pm

A death-penalty avenging angel in a Louisiana parish

Acting district attorney Dale Cox’s personal evolution serves not only as a window into the criminal justice system in Louisiana’s Caddo Parish, but also goes...

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February 14, 2015 at 6:01 am

Lynchings in the American South: taking count, taking note

Lynchings in the American South were far more numerous than previously acknowledged, with nearly 4,000 people killed from 1877 to 1950, according to a new...

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November 25, 2014 at 8:45 am

For Ferguson grand jury, a mass of evidence, much of it conflicting

FERGUSON, Mo. — Michael Brown became so angry when he was stopped by Officer Darren Wilson on Canfield Drive here on Aug. 9, his face...

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November 2, 2014 at 8:21 pm

Tight races in 2 states could leave Senate control in limbo

NEW ORLEANS — As the 2014 midterm elections barrel toward a close and Democrats brace for losses around the country, operatives in both parties are...

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