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Transgender Teens
According to data from the CDC analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA, some 3.3% of American high school students ages 13-17...
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News From Around the South, 12/15 to 12/22
SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston historian uncovers date SC flag was first flown. It’s not the design we know today. A Charleston historian has uncovered...
Boston celebrates its tea party history today. One in Charleston, S.C., came first
On this day 252 years ago, angry colonists in Massachusetts boarded a British ship in the Boston Harbor to protest what were seen as unfair circumstances regarding tea imports. Dressed as Mohawk Indians, the mob on Dec. 16, 1773, dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard into the saltwater – in what has since been immortalized as the Boston Tea Party. Thing is, Charleston had staged its own...
Civil War wrecks vanish, then drone finds buried ‘anomalies’ on land, SC data shows
Shipwrecks frequently get lost, but a search for four missing Civil War blockade runners off South Carolina has come to the unusual conclusion that...
New biography examines Preston Brooks, the SC congressman behind an infamous Senate floor beating
Nearly 170 years after South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks raised his cane and beat abolitionist Charles Sumner bloody on the Senate floor,...
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Transgender Teens
According to data from the CDC analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA, some 3.3% of American high school students ages 13-17 self-identify as transgender. Earlier studies, sometimes asking the question differently, have reported a range from 1.2% to 2.7%. Who...
News From Around the South, 12/15 to 12/22
SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston historian uncovers date SC flag was first flown. It’s not the design we know today. A Charleston historian has uncovered brand new information about the first recorded appearance of South Carolina’s signature crescent flag. But he had to go...
Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech
Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson...
Boston celebrates its tea party history today. One in Charleston, S.C., came first
On this day 252 years ago, angry colonists in Massachusetts boarded a British ship in the Boston Harbor to protest what were seen as unfair circumstances regarding tea imports. Dressed as Mohawk Indians, the mob on Dec. 16, 1773, dumped more than 300 chests of tea...
A Human Swastika
They clearly wanted attention and attention is what they got. Eight students at Branham High School in San Jose, Calif. posted photos of themselves on social media forming a human swastika — and lest there be any doubt, accompanied the photo with a quote from Adolf...
