by editor | Nov 12, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Last week, students and administrators at Yale University fought over a series of racial incidents. A fraternity at the university was accused of excluding nonwhite women from a party. Students and administrators also argued over whether it was appropriate to curtail...
by editor | Nov 11, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Sometimes I like Donald Trump. He makes me laugh when he mocks reporters’ stupid questions. Sometimes he’s smart. When Maryland’s lefty governor said a tax on rich people would “raise revenue,” Trump told me why it wouldn’t. The...
by editor | Nov 11, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
NORTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Supporters Fight to Keep Supporter in Parade NEWTON, N.C. — The Confederate flag controversy continued Tuesday night at a Newton City Council meeting. The community voiced their concerns about removing the flag from the...
by editor | Nov 5, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
In the 1960s and ’70s, towns across the South created inexpensive private schools to keep white students from having to mix with black. Many remain open, the communities around them as divided as ever. It took LaToysha Brown 13 years to realize how little...
by editor | Nov 4, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“Are the good times really over for good?” asked Merle Haggard in his 1982 lament. Then, the good times weren’t over. In fact, they were coming back, with the Reagan recovery, the renewal of the American spirit and the end of a Cold War that had consumed so much of...
by editor | Nov 3, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
MISSISSIPPI: Two KKK Members Charged With Gun Possession on Ole Miss Campus OXFORD, Miss. – Two Ku Klux Klan members face federal weapons charges after police say they had guns in a truck parked at the University of Mississippi. University police Thursday arrested...