New S.C. guide to trace Black history of the Revolutionary War
The WeGOJA Foundation’s CadenceSC guide, backed by a $60,000 SC250 grant, will map sites tied to Black South Carolinians in the Revolutionary War. COLUMBIA, S.C. — An enslaved man named Watt helped Patriots win a 1780 Revolutionary War battle in York County, and a new...
What a Losing Campaign Looks Like
If you want a one-word answer to how the president is approaching this election, I'll give you my favorite. Kentucky. That's it. He has exactly one public event scheduled on Saturday — a rally in Kentucky. Kentucky, a state that President Donald Trump carried by 30...
News From Around the South, 10/12 to 10/19
SOUTH CAROLINA: S.C. Arts Commission’s interim director steps down, following 2 board members’ resignations None of the three stepping down from their positions mentioned a controversial decision not to fund two LGBTQ+ arts group COLUMBIA — The interim director of the...
Trump’s Final Humiliation of Lindsey Graham
Dear Lindsey, Your body had not long been in the grave when your pal Donald Trump made the anti-Russia legislation that carried your name a nullity. Wondering how you'd feel about this if you were around to see it. The whole point of your last decade of life was the...
Savor the Stories of Southern Food
We enjoy gathering at a table filled with our family’s favorite foods. We remember specific dishes and the people who prepared them, special occasions and meaningful traditions. Scholars who study food do too. They also look for insights beyond a single family. “Food...
Love Stays
The one thing you can't make when you get old is old friends. Pam Fleischaker was one of my oldest friends. We met more than 40 years ago as two young political activists. She commuted from Oklahoma City to help run the Democratic Platform Committee for Geraldine...
News From Around the South, 10/5 to 10/12
VIRGINIA: UVA Press cancels book critical of leading Southern food figures In early 2025, University of Virginia Press announced the forthcoming release of “The Strange Career of Cornbread Nationalism.” The book “debunking the mythologized South of the food writing...
The Prosecutor’s Dilemma
"That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape, than that one innocent person should suffer." — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) The hardest decision a government prosecutor may ever face is also one of the most important tests of the rule of law: What do you do...
Tenn. legislature to investigate other execution methods after failed lethal injections
Republican leaders in Tennessee’s legislature say they will investigate the reliability of lethal injection as an execution method after the state failed to execute two death row inmates in the span of five months. Gov. Bill Lee stopped the May execution of Tony...
Predicting Breast Cancer
Imagine there were a simple test, using AI, that could accurately predict a man's chance of developing prostate cancer in the next five years. Would insurance pay the $249 for the test? You bet they would. "Men fund what they fear," then Rep. Pat Schroeder so famously...
Obiter Dicta
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