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2 months ago | thelivingsouth.com | Billy Ball

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2 months ago | thelivingsouth.com | Billy Ball

A momentary break from our regularly scheduled programming at The Living South. This is not a deep-pocketed, trendy newsletter. I'm just a guy sitting in his home in North Carolina and writing. And social media networks are a terrible place to grow unless you pay them for advertising. That's because social media content that links off of the social media platform gets throttled down and seen by fewer people.

Feb 15, 2025 | thelivingsouth.com | Billy Ball

Alex Haley changed Black America with "Roots." Now his nephew digs deeper. The Pulitzer-winning author and journalist Alex Haley was "woke" before there was such a thing. Today, his nephew, Chris, continues his work preserving the Black family tree. Feb 15, 2025 • 15 min read Chris Haley in 2018. (Photo via Baltimore Sun) This post is for subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Feb 1, 2025 | thelivingsouth.com | Billy Ball

This South Carolina pitmaster wants to get barbecue the respect it deserves, finally In West Columbia, South Carolina, about four miles from where the Saluda and Broad rivers become the Congaree, at the bottom of a cracked and uneven driveway, in a plain white building flying South Carolina's blue-and-white palmetto flag, lies one of the best restaurants in America.