Most of the South’s fiery segregationists are dead and largely forgotten, dumped into the ash bin of history by their fierce opposition to equal rights for black Americans. If […] Continue Reading…
Book-burning in the Trump era
October 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment
The Trump years have coincided with lots of low points in American civil society — with successive rips in the civic fabric, with countless acts of domestic terror, with […] Continue Reading…
Bigotry embedded in police culture
October 11, 2019 By Leave a Comment
There were many strange and perplexing moments during and immediately after the trial of Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer found guilty of murdering Botham Jean, an unarmed […] Continue Reading…
Greta is right about climate change
October 11, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Mobile, AL. — The calendar has marked autumn, which ought to yield crisp breezes, yellowing leaves and, most of all, cool weather. But here on […] Continue Reading…
Impeachment is the right thing
September 27, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Huffman’s sentence about right
September 20, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Felicity Huffman’s light sentence for her role in the college cheating scandal infuriated me. She was sentenced to 14 days in a federal prison and a $30,000 fine — […] Continue Reading…
“We wanted workers . .not people”
August 16, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Last week, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted massive raids on chicken processing plants in the state of Mississippi, detaining nearly 700 immigrant workers, many of whom entered […] Continue Reading…
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