Southern United States

New data from the 2010 U.S. Census shows that America’s Blacks are leaving the cities in northern areas and moving back to the Sun Belt, often to cities their parents and grandparents fled decades ago. Plus, more minorities are moving into suburbs, desegregating historically white areas.

Currently, only states with jobless rates above 8.5 percent qualify for 13-week extension in benefits for the unemployed.

Officials along the Mississippi Delta are considering whether to open the floodgates, allowing water to flood farmland, to save cities from a Katrina-like disaster.

The stars and writer-director Tate Taylor discuss their film about black maids in 1960s segregated Mississippi.

In a new book, Dana Jennings recalls characters from his family to illustrate the themes of the golden age of country music between 1950 and 1970.