News From Around the South 4/17 to 4/24
LOUISIANA: New Orleans Begins Removing Confederate Monuments NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans on Monday began removing four monuments dedicated to the era of the Confederacy and its aftermath, capping a prolonged battle about the future of the memorials, which critics...
New Day, New Race
This week, the national media and national Democrats claimed a premature victory in the Georgia sixth congressional district special election, which they saw as a referendum on President Trump. But they suffered a rude awakening. When all the votes were counted,...
America’s Most Political Food
In February of 2015, Kathleen Purvis, the food editor of the Charlotte Observer, drove to Birmingham, Alabama, to attend Food Media South, an annual symposium. The keynote session, “Hey, You, Pitch Me Something,” was meant to be a friendly wind-down to a weekend of...
Worse Than Racists
As a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains — over some of the highest hurdles and in a very short span of time — of any racial group in mankind’s history. What’s the evidence? If one totaled up the earnings of black Americans and considered...Obiter Dicta
In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: With location and design selected, SC’s Robert Smalls monument needs funding The monument is expected to cost between $1 million and $2 million for the cost of the Read More