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W.E.B. Du Bois’s Little-Known, Arresting Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair of 1900

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Little-Known, Arresting Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair of 1900

by RIS Secure | Mar 22, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan

In a recent research visit to the Emily Dickinson museum and archives in Amherst, I chanced upon a most improbable discovery of forgotten, pioneering work by another titan of culture. When thirty-one-year-old W.E.B. Du Bois (February 23, 1868–August 27, 1963) heard...
Michigan Is Headed Back to Rust Belt Poverty

Michigan Is Headed Back to Rust Belt Poverty

by RIS Secure | Mar 21, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Since the early days of Henry Ford, Michigan was the proud symbol of America’s industrial might. But then, starting in the 1970s, things went south — in part because of the might of the unions that ran the state’s political machine. That’s when...
News From Around the South 3/13 to 3/20

News From Around the South 3/13 to 3/20

by RIS Secure | 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....
Michigan Is Headed Back to Rust Belt Poverty

What Happens When The Government Breaks Its Own Laws?

by RIS Secure | 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...
Indigo is making a comeback in South Carolina

Indigo is making a comeback in South Carolina

by RIS Secure | 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...
Michigan Is Headed Back to Rust Belt Poverty

Death Taxes Are Immoral. Even Worse, They Don’t Work

by RIS Secure | 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...
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