News From Around the South 5/27 to 6/3
SOUTH CAROLINA: City Attempts to Locate 7 Lost Black Cemeteries CAYCE — A city initiative has uncovered at least seven Black cemeteries with historical significance after year-long search that represented the lead phase of the project. Now, the city in northeastern...
A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years
One day in 1855, a man walked into a newspaper office in Sydney, Australia, with an odd request. The man, later described as a “man of color” with “bright, intelligent eyes” and an American accent, was looking for a copy of the United States Constitution. The text was...
American Caesar and Constitutional Indifference
A recent column in The Economist magazine asking if America is dictator-proof got me to thinking if our constitutional guarantees are secure. Stated differently: Can the custodians of our constitutional norms be trusted to restrain a deliberate attempt to ignore,...
Biden Can’t Blow the Debates
Until he challenged Donald Trump to debate, President Joe Biden seemed in denial about the state of the race. He’d been saying for some time that the polls were wrong. This was disturbing for a couple of reasons, the first being that, if anything, the polls have...
News From Around the South, 5/20 to 5/27
North Carolina: Confederate monument to ‘faithful slaves’ must be removed, North Carolina residents’ lawsuit says COLUMBIA, N.C. (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks the removal of a Confederate monument marked as “in appreciation of our faithful slaves” from...Obiter Dicta
On the eve of our nation’s 249th birthday, a Gallup poll finds that only 58% of Americans feel “extremely” or Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Play Tells Story Of Gullah Geechee Experience During Revolutionary War When George Washington goes to heaven in the Gullah Traveling Theater’s telling of the American Revolution, Saint Read More