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Silencing Free Speech
"In short, we do not need good laws to restrain bad men. We need good men to restrain bad laws." — G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) Why...
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News From Around the South 2/22 to 3/1
GEORGIA: Historian Traces Black Civil War History In Northwest Georgia If you have seen the Oscar-winning 1989 film “Glory” then you are familiar...
In decades after Civil War, promise of West lured Black homesteaders
In 1896, Francis Marion Boyer, fleeing threats of racial violence, traveled more than 1,200 miles from his home in southwest Georgia to New Mexico. The educator and graduate of what is now Morehouse College thought life on the Great Plains could offer the land ownership, opportunity and freedom he couldn’t find in his home state. By 1903, he and 12 other Black settlers had founded Blackdom, New...
Southern States See Greatest Disparity Between Healthcare Costs and Middle-Class Income
SEATTLE, Feb., 16, 2021 -- A new report found workers in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas contribute, on average, the highest percentage of their...
Future of National Park Confederate Monuments
If you knew nothing about the U.S. Civil War and traveled to Gettysburg National Military Park, you might be forgiven for believing the South won,...