This year’s education scandal saw parents shelling out megabucks to gain college admittance for their children. Federal prosecutors have charged [...]
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NORTH CAROLINA: Town Cancels Christmas Parade for Fear of Confederate Flag Protesters
In a tearful address to [...]
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Mississippi Ties Up Loose End
on February 26th, 2013 at 8:09 amPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
So you may have heard that last week Mississippi finally banned slavery. Now this is not to say that the state has been stuck in an Antebellum/Civil War timewarp for the past century and a half. But apparently there were a few oversights along the way. The Thirteenth Amendment was the first of the Reconstruction […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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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 [...]