A reporter goes to Mississippi and encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights.

by Nikole Hannah-Jones July 8, 2014

Source: www.propublica.org

" . . . It was dusk and the Delta heat settled about my shoulders like a wool blanket. Heavy and uncomfortable, it made my notebook paper fall limp and my ink stop flowing. Gnats and mosquitoes swarmed my legs. Aunt Charlotte, wrapped in a memory, paused to listen to an owl hooting a melancholy warning."