A Word To The Wise About Words
For most of us, our daily interactions with others are based on common words, phrases and understandings. When someone says the sky is blue, we tend to believe that the sky is blue. When we talk with people other than our friends and family, we naturally believe that...
Unpublished 1936 Guide To Black Charleston Features City’s First Restaurant Critic
“Deep away in the heart of a city, Charleston, a city called America’s most historic, a city referred to as most conservative in a conservative state, tourists give a cursory look at its Negro boarding places … An excursion through … Charleston will reveal Negro...
Draft Registration For Women? Supreme Court Stands Down
To everything there is a season, and in a season when the Supreme Court will decide many important questions, the justices have recognized an important truth: For major constitutional issues, there is a time to act, and there is a time to do nothing. They followed...
News From Around the South 6/14 to 6/21
TENNESSEE: Confederate General’s Remains To Leave Memphis MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s polarizing presence has hung over Memphis since he moved here in 1852 — his legacy cemented by a giant statue that loomed over all who...
Documentary Tells Story Of Business Owner’s Fight Over Neighbor’s Flag
Tommy Daras is not a sentimental man in the documentary “Meltdown in Dixie.” He drives dragsters, smokes cigarettes, curses with ease, and simply wants to make some money at his Orangeburg ice cream shop. But the filmmakers capture his emotional fight to take down a...Obiter Dicta
“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech or of the press…” —First Amendment to the U.S. Read More
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VIRGINIA: Virginia Museum of History and Culture launches Revolution Revisited podcast Calling all history buffs! The Virginia Museum of History and Culture is launching a podcast that you don’t want Read More