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...
Trump Fuels War in Nancy’s House
President Donald Trump’s playground taunt Sunday that “the Squad” of four new radical liberal House Democrats, all women of color, should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came,” dominated...
News From Around the South 7/8 to 7/15
NORTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Wristbands Dumped After Mixup When Sage Magness went to a public pool near Winston-Salem, staff handed out what appeared at first glance to be patriotic red, white and blue wristbands for entry, an obvious choice for the 4th of July...
The Constitution, Census and Citizenship
Late last month, the Supreme Court ruled on a challenge to a question that the Commerce Department announced it would add to the 2020 census. The census itself has been mandated by the Constitution to be taken every 10 years so that representation in the House of...
Lessons From Past Migrations
International migration is one of the most pervasive social phenomena of our times. According to recent UN estimates, as of 2017, there were almost 260 million migrants around the world. In the last five decades, the number of foreign born individuals living in the...Obiter Dicta
In the course of his losing race with the teleprompter during his Oval Office address on Dec. 17, President Donald Read More
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GEORGIA: Alicia Johnson sworn in as first Black woman elected to Georgia Public Service Commission Dr. Alicia Johnson was ceremonially sworn in this week as Georgia’s newest Public Service Commissioner, Read More