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When White Scholars Pick White Scholars

by RIS Secure | Jul 18, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

All but one of the National Communication Association’s 70 distinguished scholars are white. Most if not all members of the organization agree that’s a problem. But the association’s new plan for selecting its distinguished scholars — in which a...

African-American Confederate Pensions

by RIS Secure | Jul 17, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

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 the state turned for workers...

Trump Fuels War in Nancy’s House

by RIS Secure | Jul 16, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

President Donald Trump’s playground taunt Sunday that “the Squad” of four new radical liberal House Democrats, all women of color, should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came,” dominated...

News From Around the South 7/8 to 7/15

by RIS Secure | Jul 15, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

NORTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Wristbands Dumped After Mixup When Sage Magness went to a public pool near Winston-Salem, staff handed out what appeared at first glance to be patriotic red, white and blue wristbands for entry, an obvious choice for the 4th of July...

The Constitution, Census and Citizenship

by RIS Secure | Jul 11, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Late last month, the Supreme Court ruled on a challenge to a question that the Commerce Department announced it would add to the 2020 census. The census itself has been mandated by the Constitution to be taken every 10 years so that representation in the House of...

Lessons From Past Migrations

by RIS Secure | Jul 10, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

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, the number of foreign born individuals living in the...