News From Around the South, 2/27 to 3/6
SOUTH CAROLINA: Upstate Lynching Victims Memorial Unveiled at Pendleton Library PENDLETON — There’s a new feature in the Pendleton library, a memorial nearly three years in the making that was brought to its current home on the final day of Black History Month. An...
Enemies of All Mankind
Last week in a federal courtroom at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an American physician hired by the Pentagon testified about the CIA’s use of rectal “feeding” tubes on prisoners it detained and tortured in Thailand from 2001 to 2006....
Documentary to Feature S.C. Family of Black Magicians During Jim Crow
SPARTANBURG — When conversations about perseverance during the oppressive Jim Crow Era arise, the topic of stage magic isn’t the first to come to mind. Despite laws that were in place at the time, many Black entertainers who came from the South traveled across the...
The Legacy of Jimmy Carter
In 2015, at the age of 90, former president Jimmy Carter released a statement saying that he had metastatic melanoma and that the cancer had spread to his brain. “It’s in the hands of God,” he calmly explained, “whom I worship.” News...Obiter Dicta
Way back in 1929, the number of House members was set at 435 by the Permanent Apportionment Act. Little did Read More
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NORTH CAROLINA: Despite Top Court Ruling, Plaintiffs Try Again to Save Asheville Civil War Monument ASHEVILLE – Despite recently losing their case less than two months ago in the North Read More