News From Around the South 1/8 to 1/15
SOUTH CAROLINA: Republicans Want to Build Monument to Black Confederates The proposal by state Representatives Bill Chumley and Mike Burns for the revisionist pro-Confederacy monument on the statehouse grounds flies in the face of the historical record of the era as...
Trump: Race Matters in Immigration Debate
President Trump “said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist. … I cannot believe … any president has ever spoken the words that I … heard our president speak yesterday.” So wailed Sen. Dick Durbin after departing the White House....
Is ‘Fire and Fury’ Fizzling?
The most disappointed people in America this past week must be those Trump execrators who opened their Amazon package only to find that the copy of “Fire and Fury” they had ordered was subtitled “The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945.”...
Racism: Lessons From the South
PHILADELPHIA, MISS. — How does a black man win the highest political office in this majority-white town, infamous for one of the vilest acts of racial violence in modern American history? James Young knows precisely. The chatty, barrel-chested Pentecostal pastor and...
Dirty College Secrets
A frequent point I have made in past columns has been about the educational travesty happening on many college campuses. Some people have labeled my observations and concerns as trivial, unimportant and cherry-picking. While the spring semester awaits us, let’s...Obiter Dicta
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More