by editor | Apr 4, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty as governments throughout the United States engaged in direct and subtle attacks on...
by editor | Apr 3, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Scones and rolls are suitable accompaniments for a feast that sticks to the gut. But when in the South, the supreme side for a skillet dinner (maybe besides corn bread) is bar none the biscuit. Almighty in heft and angelically light, this utilitarian quick bread has...
by editor | Apr 2, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
How are America’s leaders measuring up against the standards set by the Constitution and the examples of the Founding Fathers? It’s a question I’ve been asking as I seek refuge from contemporary politics in reading and occasionally writing, in my...
by editor | Apr 1, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
FLORIDA: At South Florida’s Only HBCU, Black History is Taught With No Censorship Professor Msomi Moor has a special greeting for everyone who comes into his African American History class. “Welcome Black,” says the Florida Memorial University professor. FMU is...
by editor | Mar 28, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)(ENDITAL) When American colonists were oppressed by British governance, the word most...
by editor | Mar 27, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Josephine Wright, who died this year at 94, had been fighting to save family property. The developer, Bailey Point Investments, agreed to end the dispute, the family’s lawyer said.The family of a woman who fought a developer to keep their ancestral land in Hilton...