‘Sweet Home Alabama’ & History
The year is 1973, and in Studio One, Dooraville, in Atlanta, Georgia, Ronnie Van Zant, the lead singer and guiding light of Lynyrd Skynyrd mutters ‘Turn it up’ into a microphone. An electric moment in a song that will become legendary, and which will propel the...
The Media’s BuzzFeed and Covington Disasters
The last few days have been absolutely terrible for the reputation of the badly named “mainstream media.” The myth that they tried to build for themselves after the 2016 election — that the American people were too prone to misinformation from malignant...
News From Around the South 1/14 to 1/21
The replica Confederate flag taken down from the S.C. State House grounds has finally been displayed at the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military museum. The flag had been in storage in an acid-free box alongside actual Civil War relics since it was handed to Relic...
Silent Sam Removed, UNC Chancellor Out
RALEIGH, N.C. — Hours after the last remnants of a Confederate statue were removed overnight from North Carolina’s flagship public university, the state university system’s governing board pushed out the official who ordered them gone. UNC-Chapel Hill...Obiter Dicta
The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: To save SC’s historic Black schools, nonprofit launches statewide coalition The South Carolina Historic Black Schools Preservation Network is meant to help pool resources and knowledge in saving Read More