Alabama man appeals 1991 murder conviction, citing evidence of trial attorney’s ties to KKK - Robin ‘Rocky’ Myers cites research that shows the man who represented him did work for Klan officials and spoke at KKK rallies. A former Alabama death row inmate is seeking a new trial after finding evidence that his trial attorney was affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. Robin “Rocky” Myers, whose death sentence was commuted to life […]
News From Around the South, 3/23 to 3/30 - MISSISSIPPI: Ku Klux Klan items are found as Mississippi Department of Public Safety packs to move Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials stumbled across a cache of Ku Klux Klan materials while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters. Inside a small blue suitcase, they found a handbook for the White […]
War and Morality - War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting old men’s power games. It is the health of the state. The war […]
Disability rights group tells history of State Hospital through ‘people, not patients’ - New history booklet tells what it was like to live on the Bull Street campus that opened in 1828 COLUMBIA, S.C. — To outsiders, the then-called South Carolina Lunatic Asylum in the 1800s was an idyllic, tranquil place to live, with garden paths and therapeutic activities. “No one would have supposed that they were crazy,” […]
Trump’s War Psychology - Two weeks after the start of the Iran War, the picture is coming into focus. Why would a president who promised countless times not to start new wars have leapt into this conflict? As always in the age of Trump, it’s necessary to separate the president’s motives and mindset from the old ways we used […]
