Southern Culture for Internationals
Almost all of them know who Michael Jordan is. But when it comes to ordering eggs in a restaurant – fried, poached, hard boiled, scrambled, over easy – they’re pretty much stumped by the terminology. America is a complex and baffling place for UNC’s international...
News From Around the South 5/2 to 5/9
FLORIDA: KKK Protests Black Confederate Flag Supporter JACKSONVILLE — A Southern Civil Rights activist – supporting the rights of the South – was protested by the KKK recently in downtown Jacksonville. H.K. Edgerton, a black man, was paying his...
Who Promoted Private Ryan?
Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet support Trump. In millennial teen-talk, Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper,...
Yale Defies Revisionist History
Despite decades of fervent student protests that reached a peak last fall, the president of Yale announced on Wednesday that the university would keep the name of a residential college honoring the 19th-century politician and white supremacist John C. Calhoun. The...
America, France Turn Right
In Sunday’s first-round of regional elections in France, the clear and stunning winner was the National Front of Marine Le Pen. Her party rolled up 30 percent of the vote, and came in first in 6 of 13 regions. Marine herself won 40 percent of her northeast district....Obiter Dicta
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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