Why is the South Hardest Hit by HIV?
New Yorker Deadra Malloy was diagnosed with HIV in 1988, but she remained healthy for so long that she wasn’t completely convinced she was positive. When she started getting sick in 2006, she decided to embrace her “ancestral roots” and accepted a job down South,...News from Around the South 10/6 – 10/13
GEORGIA: Group Honors Union Civil War Solders They don hot woolen blue uniforms to participate in memorial services at Marietta National Military Cemetery, and also at the vast Union Army graveyard at the notorious Andersonville prisoner of war camp near Americus....Southern Food Gets its Due
Do you live somewhere with a cuisine of its own? How would you know? There have been some famous attempts to define cuisine, including one by Sidney Mintz that has generated a great deal of debate. I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that a cuisine...
Maher v. Affleck: Maher Should Apologize
Actor Ben Affleck, star of the hit film “Gone Girl,” recently appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show along with Sam Harris, author of the book “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion.” Maher and Harris accused Affleck of ignoring...Obiter Dicta
Last week, a half-dozen masked and unidentifiable Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents killed a 37-year-old federal employee, a nurse, by 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