by editor | Mar 21, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: Avery Research Center Gets $2 Million Grant to Enhance Exhibits CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture just got its biggest-ever boost thanks to a $2 million grant awarded by the Mellon Foundation....
by editor | Mar 16, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Five members of the Proud Boys are currently on trial for sedition in federal court in Washington, D.C. Sedition is a conspiracy to overthrow the federal government by the use of force. This case stems from the events of Jan. 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol. During the...
by editor | Mar 16, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Indigo was once so vital to the state people called it “blue gold.” As interest in the dye reignites, historic sites are shining a light on its past. CHARLESTON, S.C. — At Charleston landmarks such as McLeod Plantation and the Aiken-Rhett House, visitors learn...
by editor | Mar 13, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“I have no respect for the passion of equality,” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America’s great jurists, once declared, “which seems to me merely idealizing envy.” But envy, and its sister vice, greed, are very much back in fashion...
by editor | Mar 13, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
GEORGIA: Clayton County Holding On To Confederate Street Names CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A proposal to part ways with Georgia’s Confederate past was shot down during a Clayton County Board of Commissioners meeting. During Tuesday’s meeting, the measure to...