News From Around the South, 9/4 to 9/11
SOUTH CAROLINA: Developers Have Black Families Struggling to Maintain Property, History PHILLIPS COMMUNITY, S.C. — The Rev. Elijah Smalls Jr. once grew okra, butter beans and other vegetables in the neighborhood where his family has lived near the South Carolina...
Rescheduling Pot Leaves Fed Prohibition Untouched
For half a century, reformers have been urging the Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana, which since 1970 has been assigned to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the law’s most restrictive category. Although the DEA has always...
Confederate Diaspora Spread Views Broadly
A new study outlines how white people’s migration during and after the Civil War, from the Confederate South to the West, bolstered white supremacy and institutional racism in non-slave states, helping create the vast racial disparities that exist today nationwide....
Pro-Life Movement Should Change Tactics
This November, Pennsylvanians will elect a new judge to the state’s Supreme Court. The contest is shaping up as another donnybrook pitting pro-life and pro-choice forces against one another. It doesn’t require a Ph.D. in political science to guess how this...
News From Around the South 8/28 to 9/4
SOUTH CAROLINA: New Cookbook Highlights South Carolina’s Jewish History and Culture Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey have been friends for decades. Both Jewish natives of South Carolina, their mothers knew each other growing up — but they recently...Obiter Dicta
In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of disseminating Read More
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NORTH CAROLINA: Buried military site emerges on NC’s Outer Banks, prompting beach contamination alert A stretch of Outer Banks beach within North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore was closed Thursday, Read More