Years ago, author Fannie Flagg said goodbye to “Whistle Stop,” the fictional Alabama town best known as the setting for her 1987 novel, “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café”…or so she thought. Check out our exclusive interview with Flagg for her thoughts on revisiting the beloved world of "Fried Green Tomatoes," and catch Jack Royer on CBS 42 every morning starting at 4:30am. https://bit.ly/3n6Hnt3 | CBS 42

Fannie Lou Hamer gripped the nation with her televised testimony of being forced from her home and brutally beaten (suffering permanent kidney damage) for attempting to exercise her constitutional right to vote. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?” she asked the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hamer had arrived in Atlantic Ci