News From Around the South, 10/21 to 10/28
SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston Research Project to Map 200 Black Graves CHARLESTON, S.C. – State preservation leaders say a project that documented and mapped 200 Black burial sites is a big moment for understanding the city’s past and planning its future. Teams...
Unseen Middle-Class Black Voters Move Right
Barbara Clark is the perfect example of a voter, whether Black, white, Hispanic or from any other ethnic group, who defies stereotypes. This defiance often leads to voters such as her being overlooked as people who could change not just the presidential election but...
News From Around the South, 10/14 to 10/21
LOUISIANA: The Fall of Confederate Shreveport SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – During the American Civil War, eleven Southern cities were badly damaged or destroyed and almost 116,000 people were displaced. That’s a little more than 1% of the South’s entire population....
Are Minorities Voting Increasingly Like Republicans?
Not everything significant politically is happening just in the target states. “Never seen anything like this in thirty years,” said California Republican consultant Mike Madrid in an X post, referencing the sharp increase in Republican registration among...
Oldest Surviving Ship of U.S. Navy To Go On Display Next Year
In 2026, the US will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That year, the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History will unveil a new display interpreting the 54-foot 1776 gunboat Philadelphia, built for Benedict...Obiter Dicta
There is lore about the 1862 meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” — the influential novel Read More
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