In-Depth: Southern Identity in Reality TV
Candid Camera, an American television comedy series that premiered in 1948, is often credited as the first reality television program.1 Since that time, and particularly within the past decade, reality TV has exploded into mainstream popular culture. Reality-based...
From Elephant to Tortoise, A GOP Manifesto
As usual, the GOP primary was sewn up before California’s June 7 primary. By late May, Donald Trump had the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nod. Nonetheless, I voted for Ohio Gov. John Kasich by absentee ballot, even though Kasich suspended his campaign last...
News From Around the South 5/31 to 6/6
KENTUCKY: Confederate Statue Lawyers to Drop Client In the wake of a Jefferson County judge’s decision to lift a restraining order against the planned relocation of Louisville’s controversial Confederate monument, attorneys for the plaintiffs want to be relieved from...
Are HBCUs Endangered Species?
Elizabeth City State University faced a brief existential crisis last month when North Carolina lawmakers toyed with the idea of closing the historically black institution. The lawmakers backed off, but the episode was just one in a series of challenges facing the...
Memorial Day Started to Honor Civil War Vets
Here’s a trivia question for armchair historians: Was the first Memorial Day celebrated in Columbus, Georgia, or Columbus, Mississippi? According to strict calendric interpretation, Columbus, Mississippi, celebrated the holiday first, on April 25, 1866, but only...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: University of Georgia provost named Clemson’s new president Selection came after the first choice opted to remain at Michigan State University CLEMSON — Clemson University’s governing board on Read More