Obiter Dicta
The Country at a Crossroads
There are no innocent bystanders in Donald Trump's America. Seeing what we've seen lately — blood spilled in snow, and a vile post...
CSA
News From Around the South, 2/2 to 2/9
SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘A kick in the pants’: SC bill banning minimum grades in schools advances in House COLUMBIA — A bill that would prohibit school...
Traveling the Blues Highway—‘the root of all American music’
Samuel Reuben Kendrick, my great-grandfather, was born a slave in Alabama. In 1888 he founded a farming community called New Africa on 160 acres he bought from the railroad near Duncan, Mississippi. Among the tribulations he faced—floods, boll weevil infestations, bank loans due—one incident finally persuaded him to leave Mississippi. When a sharecropper on a nearby plantation asked to live and...
National park signs related to Native Americans, climate change to be removed
Among the national parks targeted in the new removal orders are some of the country’s most iconic: Grand Canyon, Glacier, Big Bend and Zion. Trump...
America’s Only Native Caffeinated Plant—and You May Love It More Than Coffee or Tea
Key Takeaways Yaupon is the only known caffeinated plant native to North America. Yaupon tea contains theobromine and theophylline, providing energy...