Where The Unclaimed Dead of South Carolina’s Prisons Are Laid To Rest - COLUMBIA — Visitors aren’t a common sight here. Tucked away from view is the resting place of the state’s criminal dead, a modest three-quarter-acre parcel in the shadow of Columbia’s sprawling prison complex on the Broad River. It’s where the unclaimed inmates who die within the corrections system are laid to rest. No flowers rest on […]
Two Media Giants, No Endorsement - WASHINGTON — Will Lewis, publisher of The Washington Post, announced Friday that the newspaper will not make an endorsement in the 2024 presidential election. The WaPo nonendorsement came on the heels of news that the Los Angeles Times would not endorse in the race for the White House. Two blue-city newspapers owned by two billionaires […]
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 with the Preservation Society of Charleston, The Anson Street African Burial Ground Project and […]
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 also the majority in the Senate. Clark is a Black female […]
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. Yet somehow Shreveport, Louisiana, the capital of Confederate Louisiana and Headquarters for the Confederate Department […]
