During the past week, President Donald Trump excited two bitter public controversies by sending and publishing two highly inappropriate and [...]
News From Around the South 7/8 to 7/15
NORTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Wristbands Dumped After Mixup
Forsyth County said the Confederate flag wristbands were ordered by mistake. [...]
Jul18
All but one of the National Communication Association’s 70 distinguished scholars are white. Most if not all members of the organization agree that’s a problem. But the association’s new plan for selecting its distinguished scholars — in which a special committee, not the existing group of scholars, chooses new honorees — has proven controversial. And one of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lessons From Past Migrations
International migration is one of the most pervasive social phenomena of our times. According to recent UN estimates, as of 2017, there were almost 260 million migrants around the world. In the last five decades, [...]
African-American Confederate Pensions
During the Civil War, with practically every fit white man serving in the Confederate Army, South Carolina had a serious shortage of conventional labor.
So, since most of the population consisted of enslaved African-Americans, that’s where [...]