New Book Celebrates The Black Civil War Soldier
As a period of bitter political division gives way to a new administration, and a president who has vowed to be a leader for “all Americans,” we seem to have entered a second era of Reconstruction, when the cracks and splits in our Union are carefully being sutured....
Biden’s America: One Nation or Us Versus Them?
“We have met the enemy and he is us,” said Walt Kelly’s cartoon character Pogo, half a century ago, about what we Americans were doing to our environment. Rereading President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, Pogo’s remark comes to mind....
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TEXAS: Black Lawmakers Hope To See ‘Confederate Heroes Day’ Abolished Texas Democratic lawmakers have long tried to remove Confederate Heroes Day from calendars, and they have high hopes that 2021 could be the year it happens. The holiday comes just a day...
The Social Media Connundrum
Washington — It is a reflection of the vulgarity and even the criminality now stalking our society that social media, as it is called, cannot extricate itself from this awful question of censorship. Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media platforms that are...
Pimento Cheese Perfected In The South
The first time I really looked into the history of pimento cheese, I wrote a long article that opened, “Pimento cheese has a dirty little secret. The ‘pâté of the South’ isn’t really very Southern at all.” What surprised me most at the...Obiter Dicta
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FLORIDA: Will a Florida museum on Black history tell whole story? Some worry it won’t Florida’s proposal to create a statewide Black history museum prompted interest, and then glossy reports, Read More