This year’s education scandal saw parents shelling out megabucks to gain college admittance for their children. Federal prosecutors have charged [...]
News From Around the South 12/2 to 12/9
NORTH CAROLINA: Town Cancels Christmas Parade for Fear of Confederate Flag Protesters
In a tearful address to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘“Jim DeMint”’
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Jan18
To understand the depth of the Republican dilemma that continues to brew in Washington, you only needed to listen to two voices last week. One belonged to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. The primal scream he aimed at his fellow Republicans in the 112th Congress, who on their final day refused to take up a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Mar05
For a century after losing the Civil War, the South was America’s own colonial backwater—“not quite a nation within a nation, but the next thing to it,” W. J. Cash wrote in his classic 1941 study, “The Mind of the South.” From Tyler, Texas, to Roanoke, Virginia, Southern places felt unlike the rest of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Lure of the South: Confederate Yankees
Albert H. Newall died at Fort Delaware POW camp. The town fathers of Danville, Iowa didn’t want to bury his body in the local cemetery.JIM WILLIAMS/RANDEL BAILEY
At least 76 Iowans fought for the [...]
Racism in University Culture
Syracuse University
To hear some Syracuse University students and alumni of color tell it, the headline-grabbing events on campus over the past two weeks were a long time coming.
They say while other colleges and universities across [...]