News From Around the South, 10/6 to 10/13 - NORTH CAROLINA: In a Private Park in North Carolina, Confederate Statues Are Rising Again A state law limits what can happen to a Confederate statue after it is removed. Valor Memorial, a private park, has become a destination for some. Amid the rolling farmland of central North Carolina, near the small town of Denton, three […]
Is the Other Party the Enemy? - Just after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a New York Times/Siena poll found that Americans believe polarization is the second most serious challenge facing the nation. (The economy came in first.) As recently as one year ago, fewer than 1% of registered voters cited polarization as a national problem; this year, 13% said it was […]
This SC library is older than the Library of Congress. It has big plans for America’s 250th anniversary - GEORGETOWN, S.C. — South Carolina played a crucial role in the Revolutionary War, and the Georgetown County Library doesn’t want the public to forget it. The library is creating “A Glorious Cause,” an education initiative highlighting the Palmetto State’s contributions to the war. The project coincides with the 250th anniversary of the country’s founding, and it […]
Trump’s Latest Invitation to Universities - It’s called the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” It is anything but. It asks the schools who received Wednesday’s letter to give up their academic freedom and adopt the right-wing partisan platform on education in exchange for preferred access to federal funding. Of course, the document points out (as it must) that “institutions […]
News From Around the South, 9/29 to 10/6 - GEORGIA: Georgia’s highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community Atlanta (AP) — Georgia’s highest court Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities founded by freed slaves. The state Supreme Court unanimously reversed a lower court ruling that had […]
