Rick Rojas
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southern bureau chief @nytimes
ATL
Joined January 2009
My strange, stressful drive home
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All I can remember is clutching the steering wheel tightly, inching forward as water splashed against the car.
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RT @rjamesfinn: Outside New Orleans, a New Mardi Gras Experience: The King Cake Drive-Thru via @RaR
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A tire shop parking lot has become a popular destination for those craving the beloved treat. The only problem: Which variety to choose?
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RT @kimseverson: Trying so hard to get @RaR to break up with the national desk and join the fun kids over at @nytcooking. https://t.co/….
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A tire shop parking lot has become a popular destination for those craving the beloved treat. The only problem: Which variety to choose?
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RT @kimseverson: “The Lord laid it on my heart and we all need to lift her up because — insert information here,” Mr. Bryant explained in t….
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Landon Bryant talks about grits, prayer lists and humidity, addressing a diverse audience bound by its fascination with a colorful, complicated place.
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RT @shailadewan: This insane and terrible story, well told by @RaR
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Bettersten Wade spent months calling the police for help finding her son, without being told that an off-duty officer driving an S.U.V. had fatally struck him on the same day she last saw him.
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RT @traceytully: Beautiful story by @RaR on the Carters, their marriage and their hometown of Plains, Ga. Well done Rick (and Rosalynn) h….
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Their marriage was admired for its endurance — 77 years — and for the affection between the two people in it. “It radiated,” one acquaintance said.
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RT @JenBerryHawes: “It’s the moist, soupy, suffocating humidity that swallows up everything and conspires with the heat to make any activit….
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It’s not just the heat, as Southerners have explained for generations. It’s the moist, soupy, suffocating humidity. And this year the punishing conditions have been relentless.
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RT @rjamesfinn: The South Knows a Hot, Sticky Summer. But This? ‘It’s Hell.’ via @RaR in New Iberia, LA
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It’s not just the heat, as Southerners have explained for generations. It’s the moist, soupy, suffocating humidity. And this year the punishing conditions have been relentless.
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RT @jswatz: "It’s not just the heat, as Southerners have explained for generations. It’s the moist, soupy, suffocating humidity that swallo….
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It’s not just the heat, as Southerners have explained for generations. It’s the moist, soupy, suffocating humidity. And this year the punishing conditions have been relentless.
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RT @liamstack: I wrote about Sinead O’Connor and how the experiences that shaped her — child abuse, teenage incarceration at a church-run h….
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In Ireland, Ms. O’Connor spoke out about abuse and the complicity of religious institutions. When she came to the United States, many were not ready to hear her — yet.
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RT @rjamesfinn: In Louisiana, a Democratic Governor Leans on Vetoes to Stall Conservative Agenda. via @NYTimes @RaR .
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John Bel Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South, has successfully vetoed bills that have glided into law elsewhere in the region. Soon, he’ll leave office.
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She not only told me about the NYT Student Journalism Institute, she convinced me I was worthy of it. It’s no exaggeration to say the program altered the trajectory of my life and career. I feel a lot of things about this, but it’s mostly sadness over what could have been.
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Kathleen McElroy is the only other journalist I know of (besides me) in the Texas A&M to NYT pipeline. I met her as a sophomore, and I was just in awe, having someone of her stature and experience willing to talk stories and even dig into my raw copy.
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Kathleen McElroy was appointed head of a journalism program at the university. But then her work in D.E.I. seemed to come into question.
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RT @bradystonex: Don’t be mistaken about who these vocal, anti-DEI constituents are . @TheBattOnline did a deep dive last year on the exa….
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Maybe disaster can lead to opportunity. I heard that a lot in Rolling Fork in the weeks after the devastating tornado. But was it a chance to breathe life into a struggling town — or set off on the well-trodden path to leave the Mississippi Delta?.
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Rolling Fork, Miss., like much of the Delta, had already been wrecked by disinvestment and decline before a giant tornado swept through in late March, leaving residents to ponder whether to rebuild...
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On the Fourth of July in Atlanta, you first go see the official, government-sanctioned fireworks display, then you watch the almost certainly unsanctioned one being fired off in a bank parking lot.
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