News From Around the South, 3/24 to 3/31

News From Around the South, 3/24 to 3/31

SOUTH CAROLINA: SC lawmakers taking steps to further protect Confederate monuments with penalties and context controls COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers want to strengthen the state’s Heritage Act, which establishes protections for Confederate and other monuments by...
The Cover-Up Is Always Worse Than The Crime

A Brief History of the Freedom of Speech

“I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he included in it a list of the colonists’ grievances with the British government....