News From Around the South 3/26 to 4/2
NORTH CAROLINA: Beachgoer’s Drone Captures Image of Civil War-Era Shipwreck While vacationing at Holden Beach in North Carolina last week, 42-year-old Brent Garlington spotted what is thought to be a wrecked Civil War-era steamer. Garlington, of Fayetteville,...
Fifty Years After Death, Promised Land Elusive
Had he lived, Martin Luther King would now be an elder statesman of American politics, having given further service to his country through continued moral leadership and probably through holding high office. Today, aged 89, not an impossible age, he would doubtless...
Knee-Jerk Liberals Spit at Sinclair
Let’s imagine the following statements were part of a public opinion poll. How many people would agree to these assertions? 1. “(W)e’re concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country. The sharing of...
Chestnut’s Difficult Diary
This year I teach some Lincoln, Douglass, and Booker T. Washington: heroes, even if flawed, because they got the big moral struggle of their time right. They are inspiring to read, but to understand how decent people could resist the power of the truth for so long...
Nashville Mayor Wants Slavery Park
As cities throughout the South move to take down monuments of Confederate leaders, the mayor of Nashville unveiled a plan this week for the city to honor an overlooked part of the Civil War era: the contributions and sacrifices of slaves. Under the proposal, announced...Obiter Dicta
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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