News From Around the South, 9/29 to 10/6

News From Around the South, 9/29 to 10/6

GEORGIA: Georgia’s highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community Atlanta (AP) — Georgia’s highest court Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of...
Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors?

Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors?

In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing....
Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors?

Beware What You Wish For

President Donald Trump wants revenge. He has made getting even the centerpiece of his administration, as if vengeance is a popular or attractive response. It isn’t. Over the weekend, Trump asked Attorney General Pam Bondi on Truth Social why “nothing is...
News From Around the South, 9/22 to 9/29

News From Around the South, 9/22 to 9/29

SOUTH CAROLINA: Misconceptions of a Civil War general’s time in Columbia persist, historians say COLUMBIA — Many who grew up in South Carolina have a very particular picture of Gen. William Sherman’s March through the state. One shaped by historical accounts passed...
Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors?

Free Speech and Its Discontents

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press …...