The video clip is a mere 36 seconds, but it is shocking, explicit, sickening. And because it has gone viral — prompting national outrage — two white men have […] Continue Reading…
Virus will devastate Deep South
April 2, 2020 By Leave a Comment
MOBILE, Al. — A close friend here confided her worries about the plans for an April family funeral. Her extended family wants to memorialize a loved one with a […] Continue Reading…
GOP’s disdain for working folk
March 28, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Congress managed to come together to pass an unprecedented $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, but not before a small group of Republican senators reminded us of the narrow-minded condescension […] Continue Reading…
Heading for history’s ash heap
October 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment
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…
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