News From Around the South 6/27 to 7/4
TENNESSEE: Group Campaigns to Abolish All Forms of Slavery in Tennessee, Amend Constitution NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The effort to remove slavery as a form of punishment in the Tennessee Constitution moves to the hands of voters this fall. It’s an effort that’s been...
Forever Prisoners
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” — Thomas Jefferson, Jan. 30, 1787 When Thomas Jefferson wrote to his friend, neighbor and colleague, James Madison, his...
Court: Harvard Can Be Sued For Distress Over Slave Photos
BOSTON — A Connecticut woman who says she’s descended from slaves portrayed in widely published, historical photos owned by Harvard can sue the Ivy League university for emotional distress, Massachusetts’ highest court ruled Thursday. The state’s Supreme Judicial...
Another Avenue of Justice
Sometimes justice delayed is still justice. That was the case this week for Judy Huth, who met once-beloved comedian Bill Cosby back in 1975 and was 16 years old when he sexually assaulted her while giving her a tour of the Playboy Mansion. A California jury found...
News From Around the South 6/20 to 6/27
VIRGINIA: New Battlefield State Park Coming to Virginia Breaking news this week from the American Battlefield Trust and the Commonwealth of Virginia: Culpeper Battlefields State Park is set to open on July 1, 2024. Jim Campi, chief policy and communications officer at...Obiter Dicta
Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New preserve protects SC sea island cotton fields and memory of the enslaved who toiled there COOSAW ISLAND — What started as a idle observation made during the isolated days Read More