A golf cart parking lot at McIntosh High School. Carts figure prominently in the lives of the city’s youngest residents.

Bettersten Wade, center, searched for her son for more than five months, unaware that he had been buried behind the local jail in a ragged cemetery for the poor and unclaimed.

Brandon Presley’s campaign has been a built on a bet that his human touch and populist platform can forge a coalition of Black and liberal-to-centrist white voters.