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...
News From Around the South 2/20 to 2/27
SOUTH CAROLINA: State Weighs ‘Yankee Tax’ On Newcomer Driving Fees COLUMBIA, S.C. – Additional fees may be coming for incoming South Carolina residents who want to legally drive on their new home state’s roads. Droves of newcomers have made South...Obiter Dicta
So now all the babies born to undocumented parents in the 28 states that didn’t challenge President Donald Trump’s executive Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Carolina Day marks 249th anniversary of triumph on Sullivan’s Island SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. — Saturday is Carolina Day, marking the 249th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island during the Read More