Seventh Uni Dumps Confederate Flag
Another Mississippi university has stopped flying the state flag that prominently features the Confederate battle emblem. School officials said requests were made recently to replace the state flag with a larger American flag. Salter said the state flags have been...
VA Cemeteries Flag Ban?
The Civil War has been over for a long time, but the battle over the Confederate flag’s appropriate place, if any, in today’s culture rages on. The Department of Veterans Affairs is shifting policy to restrict prominent display of the Confederate flag in...
Weiner’s Folly
Some people do not learn from their mistakes. Anthony Weiner is one. The husband of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin resigned from Congress in 2011 when he was caught sending shots of his tumescent privates to a number of women not his wife. His first instinct was to...
News From Around the South 8/22 to 8/29
TENNESSEE: Flag’s Stars Tell Unique History NASHVILLE — Eagle-eyed visitors to Nashville’s Civil War-era Fort Negley may have noticed something a little bit different about the United States flag that flies near the visitor’s center. As Topher...
Dixie Decision A Call for Empathy
The South is a place of duality. Of rich and poor, of haves and have-nots, of white and black. Yet oftentimes we are blind to what these dualities mean, or that both sides of the duality represent not faceless ideologies, but people with sets of very real experiences....Obiter Dicta
In my childhood years, I got to experience something I’ve cherished ever since: starry nights. I was lucky to spend Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More