News From Around the South 4/17 to 4/24
LOUISIANA: New Orleans Begins Removing Confederate Monuments NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans on Monday began removing four monuments dedicated to the era of the Confederacy and its aftermath, capping a prolonged battle about the future of the memorials, which critics...
New Day, New Race
This week, the national media and national Democrats claimed a premature victory in the Georgia sixth congressional district special election, which they saw as a referendum on President Trump. But they suffered a rude awakening. When all the votes were counted,...
America’s Most Political Food
In February of 2015, Kathleen Purvis, the food editor of the Charlotte Observer, drove to Birmingham, Alabama, to attend Food Media South, an annual symposium. The keynote session, “Hey, You, Pitch Me Something,” was meant to be a friendly wind-down to a weekend of...
Worse Than Racists
As a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains — over some of the highest hurdles and in a very short span of time — of any racial group in mankind’s history. What’s the evidence? If one totaled up the earnings of black Americans and considered...
News From Around The South 4/10 to 4/17
LOUISIANA: Restoration on Horizon for Civil War Lighthouse If you take a 21/2-mile drive down a bumpy gravel road near the Cheniere LNG terminal, you’ll dead-end at the historic Sabine Pass Lighthouse, which rises 75 feet above the marshy grasses of Southwest...Obiter Dicta
The United States invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, the domestically recognized Venezuelan president, violated the U.S. Constitution Read More
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TEXAS: Restoring fading, damaged Texas historical markers becomes man’s mission What started as childhood resentment for his dad’s mandatory roadside history stops on family vacations has evolved into a full-blown Read More