News From Around the South 1/21 to 1/28
SOUTH CAROLINA: Leader Says S.C. Secessionist Party Disbanding ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — The chairman of the South Carolina Secessionist Party says the group is dissolving. The Anderson Independent Mail reported Friday that chairman James Bessenger says “the organization...
Anti-Social Media
This past weekend, Twitter was on fire about an event near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. After a short video clip went viral showing an indigenous drummer and white teenagers wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, (anti-)social media ran with the...
‘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...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