During the past week, President Donald Trump excited two bitter public controversies by sending and publishing two highly inappropriate and [...]
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NORTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Wristbands Dumped After Mixup
Forsyth County said the Confederate flag wristbands were ordered by mistake. [...]
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Jul18
During the past week, President Donald Trump excited two bitter public controversies by sending and publishing two highly inappropriate and offensively incendiary tweets. The first of these was aimed at four female members of Congress — each a person of color, and, as members of Congress, each an American citizen. Yet the president said they […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lessons From Past Migrations
International migration is one of the most pervasive social phenomena of our times. According to recent UN estimates, as of 2017, there were almost 260 million migrants around the world. In the last five decades, [...]
African-American Confederate Pensions
During the Civil War, with practically every fit white man serving in the Confederate Army, South Carolina had a serious shortage of conventional labor.
So, since most of the population consisted of enslaved African-Americans, that’s where [...]