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Trump erroneously insisted that Alabama was in the storm's path, and Wednesday he showed a weather service map clearly altered to include the state.

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Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman is sitting in a rocking chair on a farmhouse porch in the hills of rural east Tennessee. She’s granting a rare interview on the farm she bought 25 years ago to use as a retreat to train a new generation of activists.

“Everybody needs beauty,” she says, looking out on the verdant landscape. A creek meanders through the 150-acre property, once owned by Roots author Alex Haley, in Clinton. There are porch-wrapped farmhouses, an apple orchard, a fishing pond and two structures designed by architect Maya Lin — the cantilever barn library and a chapel in the shape of an ark.

“It’s a metaphor for hope,” Edelman says.

Haley Farm harks back to the Highlander Folk School, where leaders of the civil rights movement trained in the 1950s.

Edelman says it’s home to a new social justice movement — “a modern movement that goes beyond the civil rights movement that ends poverty.”

A Tennessee Farm Grows A New Generation Of Social Justice Activists

Photos: Shawn Poynter for NPR