News From Around The South 10/25 to 11/1

News From Around The South 10/25 to 11/1

NORTH CAROLINA: New Monument Honors Black Civil War Soldiers In the early 1900s, two Civil War memorials — both honoring the Confederacy — were erected in the busy downtown district of Wilmington, N.C. They were meant largely to send a message of intimidation to...
A Press Afraid To Be Free?

A Press Afraid To Be Free?

In a week, the Supreme Court will decide if it will consider diminishing long-standing protections for the freedom of the press. Here is the backstory. In 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed a jury verdict by an...
A Press Afraid To Be Free?

Will All Of America Go On Strike?

If you think the supply chain problems, empty shelves in stores and higher inflation are problems now, wait a few weeks; they are likely to get worse. And this isn’t a result of hurricanes, the pandemic or other acts of nature. It’s all due to political...
News From Around The South 10/18 to 10/25

News From Around The South 10/18 to 10/25

TENNESSEE: U.S. Colored Troops Statue Unveiled in Downtown Franklin In November of 1899, a group gathered on Franklin’s town square. Thirty-five years after the end of the Civil War, the United Daughters of the Confederacy had raised the funds to build a Confederate...