News From Around the South, 12/23 to 12/30
SOUTH CAROLINA: Making the invisible visible: Behind the College of Charleston’s effort to highlight Black history For Bernard Powers, Charleston is full of contradictions. It’s a place enriched by Black history, but unless you know where to look and what...
The Next Pearl Harbor: Close-In Drone Swarm Attacks Launched From US Soil?
The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York — with maybes from Maryland and Virginia. Then California and Nevada residents reported odd airborne night lights — flickering, hovering, then disappearing. Airplanes, helicopters and/or authorized...
‘Of Salt and Spirit’: Black Quilters Record Southern History, Demonstrate Artistry
Sharbreon Plummer fondly gazed down at Cleola McFarland’s 1974 “Throw-together Quilt,” wearing the sort of smile you’d use to greet an old friend. The quilt lay flat on a bed-height platform in the center of the gallery at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson,...
Taking Christmas Seriously
We all know that God works in mysterious ways. Last weekend, two friends and I were deeply moved when we saw a theatrical production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of...
News From Around the South, 12/16 to 12/23
ALABAMA: For First Time in History, Alabama Will Have Two Black U.S. House Members Serving Together The 2024 election and a court-ordered redistricting led to this result: next year, Alabama will have two Black U.S. House members serving together, for the first time...Obiter Dicta
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GEORGIA: Former Georgia Southern Professor Publishes Novel On Founding of Savannah Yamacraw Bluff, a historical novel charting the trials and tribulations of Savannah’s founders, is gaining attention in Amazon’s top Read More