Unseen Middle-Class Black Voters Move Right - Barbara Clark is the perfect example of a voter, whether Black, white, Hispanic or from any other ethnic group, who defies stereotypes. This defiance often leads to voters such as her being overlooked as people who could change not just the presidential election but also the majority in the Senate. Clark is a Black female […]
News From Around the South, 10/14 to 10/21 - LOUISIANA: The Fall of Confederate Shreveport SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – During the American Civil War, eleven Southern cities were badly damaged or destroyed and almost 116,000 people were displaced. That’s a little more than 1% of the South’s entire population. Yet somehow Shreveport, Louisiana, the capital of Confederate Louisiana and Headquarters for the Confederate Department […]
Are Minorities Voting Increasingly Like Republicans? - Not everything significant politically is happening just in the target states. “Never seen anything like this in thirty years,” said California Republican consultant Mike Madrid in an X post, referencing the sharp increase in Republican registration among California’s minority voters, including the state’s numerous Latinos, growing numbers of Asians, and decreasing number of Blacks. This […]
Oldest Surviving Ship of U.S. Navy To Go On Display Next Year - In 2026, the US will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That year, the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History will unveil a new display interpreting the 54-foot 1776 gunboat Philadelphia, built for Benedict Arnold at Whitehall and the oldest surviving ship of the US Navy. When it was reported in the summer of 1935 that the wreck of […]
‘The Message’ and The Interview - On Sept. 30, bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on the “CBS Mornings” show to promote his book “The Message,” which is a one-sided critique of Israel as an apartheid state. The book compares Israel to the “Jim Crow South” and calls it out as the “one place on the planet — under American patronage — […]
