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NORTH CAROLINA: Iredell County Votes To Remove Confederate Memorial TATESVILLE, N.C. — Officials in North Carolina’s Iredell County have voted to move a Confederate memorial that has stood outside the court house for more than a century.The Statesville Record...
Silencing Free Speech
“In short, we do not need good laws to restrain bad men. We need good men to restrain bad laws.” — G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) Why do people in power try to silence speech with which they disagree? Last week produced news about the suppression of speech on...
In decades after Civil War, promise of West lured Black homesteaders
In 1896, Francis Marion Boyer, fleeing threats of racial violence, traveled more than 1,200 miles from his home in southwest Georgia to New Mexico. The educator and graduate of what is now Morehouse College thought life on the Great Plains could offer the land...Industry On The Brink Grows A Voting Coalition
FRIEDENS, Pennsylvania — Imagine if you had a job. A good job, one that required skill and critical thinking and had a broad impact in the community where you lived. A job you didn’t just show up to do. It was a job you were good at, and because of it, you were...
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GEORGIA: Historian Traces Black Civil War History In Northwest Georgia If you have seen the Oscar-winning 1989 film “Glory” then you are familiar with the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first all-African American regiment in the United States. What you may...Obiter Dicta
In 1994, Republicans won a sweeping victory that cost Democrats control of the House and Senate for the first time Read More
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VIRGINIA: Latino Virginia oral history project gives voice to stories that supplant stereotypes ore than 1 in 10 Virginia residents are Latino, according to a 2022 report from the Virginia Read More