by editor | Jun 22, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: Is State Ready to Remove Confederate Flag? A bill to take down the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina may be ready in time for the state legislature’s January 2016 session, if at least one Republican lawmaker has his way. State Rep. Norman...
by editor | Jun 19, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
by editor | Jun 18, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Andrew sat a table in a bar with no sign outside drinking a Bud Light tallboy. The windows were boarded up from the outside and the only source of light was a bare light bulb sticking out from a fixture on the wall. Behind him, gray-haired men sat at the bar watching...
by editor | Jun 17, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
In 1980, there were 500,000 Americans in prison or jail. By 2013, there were more than 2.3 million. The explosion in incarceration has fallen disproportionately on the descendants of slaves. White Americans are 77 percent of the U.S. population, and black...
by editor | Jun 16, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Just as the great William F. Buckley Jr. laid the intellectual foundation for the rise of modern conservatism, philanthropist R. Randolph Richardson set down the financial foundation of the new conservative movement. But Randy Richardson, who died May 25 at the age of...