News From Around the South 7/15 to 7/22
GEORGIA: Atlanta Couple Refuses to Pay Contractor Flying Confederate Flag ATLANTA — A black couple’s encounter with a white man they hired to fix their golf cart is going viral for the polite way they handled an awkward situation. On Saturday, Atlanta couple...
America: An Us Vs. Them Country
“Send her back! Send her back!” The 13 seconds of that chant at the rally in North Carolina, in response to Donald Trump’s recital of the outrages of Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, will not soon be forgotten, or forgiven. This phrase will have...
The Limits of Free Speech
During the past week, President Donald Trump excited two bitter public controversies by sending and publishing two highly inappropriate and offensively incendiary tweets. The first of these was aimed at four female members of Congress — each a person of color, and, as...
When White Scholars Pick White Scholars
All but one of the National Communication Association’s 70 distinguished scholars are white. Most if not all members of the organization agree that’s a problem. But the association’s new plan for selecting its distinguished scholars — in which a...
African-American Confederate Pensions
During the Civil War, with practically every fit white man serving in the Confederate Army, South Carolina had a serious shortage of conventional labor. So, since most of the population consisted of enslaved African-Americans, that’s where the state turned for workers...Obiter Dicta
According to data from the CDC analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA, some 3.3% of American high school students Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston historian uncovers date SC flag was first flown. It’s not the design we know today. A Charleston historian has uncovered brand new information about the first recorded Read More