by editor | Dec 30, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: Making the invisible visible: Behind the College of Charleston’s effort to highlight Black history For Bernard Powers, Charleston is full of contradictions. It’s a place enriched by Black history, but unless you know where to look and what...
by editor | Dec 26, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York — with maybes from Maryland and Virginia. Then California and Nevada residents reported odd airborne night lights — flickering, hovering, then disappearing. Airplanes, helicopters and/or authorized...
by editor | Dec 26, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Sharbreon Plummer fondly gazed down at Cleola McFarland’s 1974 “Throw-together Quilt,” wearing the sort of smile you’d use to greet an old friend. The quilt lay flat on a bed-height platform in the center of the gallery at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson,...
by editor | Dec 26, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
We all know that God works in mysterious ways. Last weekend, two friends and I were deeply moved when we saw a theatrical production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of...
by editor | Dec 26, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
ALABAMA: For First Time in History, Alabama Will Have Two Black U.S. House Members Serving Together The 2024 election and a court-ordered redistricting led to this result: next year, Alabama will have two Black U.S. House members serving together, for the first time...