America’s Most Political Food
In February of 2015, Kathleen Purvis, the food editor of the Charlotte Observer, drove to Birmingham, Alabama, to attend Food Media South, an annual symposium. The keynote session, “Hey, You, Pitch Me Something,” was meant to be a friendly wind-down to a weekend of...
Worse Than Racists
As a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains — over some of the highest hurdles and in a very short span of time — of any racial group in mankind’s history. What’s the evidence? If one totaled up the earnings of black Americans and considered...
News From Around The South 4/10 to 4/17
LOUISIANA: Restoration on Horizon for Civil War Lighthouse If you take a 21/2-mile drive down a bumpy gravel road near the Cheniere LNG terminal, you’ll dead-end at the historic Sabine Pass Lighthouse, which rises 75 feet above the marshy grasses of Southwest...
The President Is Allowed to Change His Mind
WASHINGTON — It looks like former President Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice will get a reprieve. With all the hullabaloo from President Donald Trump’s military action last week in Syria’s … do we call it Syria’s civil war or...Obiter Dicta
In recent days, the government in America has not only failed to protect the freedom of speech, it has attacked Read More
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LOUISIANA: YouTube channel Louisiana Dread preserves Southern culture by sharing history, folktales Bayou-born YouTube channel Louisiana Dread is serving up swamp monsters, gumbo reviews and history lessons in an effort Read More