Stand Your Ground laws are horrible by themselves. But the idea that these laws are meant to allow citizens to defend themselves is laughable. The laws' real meaning is to allow white men to reassert their authority over non-white men in whatever way they choose....
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Say what you will about modern conservatives, but sometimes they are at least unintentionally honest. I’ll say this about South Carolina’s historic education reform: It’s bold. https://t.co/mtqJI7UOq1 pic.twitter.com/IEoTjuAnav— Neetzan Zimmerman.
Oh South Carolina: Earlier this year eight-year-old Olivia McConnell wrote her state representatives to suggest that since South Carolina doesn’t currently have a state fossil, it should be given one!.
2010 broke new ground in Confederate nostalgia arguments--defining Denmark Vesey as a terrorist. Global War on Terror indeed. But there's now a Vesey statue up in Charleston, honoring the man who planned a slave rebellion in the heart of the slavery beast. There are some...
On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a free African-American living in Charleston, South Carolina, was executed for his role in leading a purported slave rebellion. This event marked a significant.
Two stories here that revolve around the theme of organized labor rarely getting value for the money it donates to Democratic politicians. On the national level, Communication Workers of American.
As we close another Decoration Day, we have David Blight with typically excellent stories about Civil War memory: But for the earliest and most remarkable Memorial Day, we must return to where the war began. By the spring of 1865, after a long siege and...
Not that we should be surprised that Jim DeMint is calling for nullification of the health care law. “I urge every governor to stop implementing the health care exchanges that.
I think I can speak for all LGM writers in support of the Laurens County (SC) Republican Party and its pledge that it wants to demand of all Republican candidates:.
We sometimes don't immediately think of the history of slavery as labor history, but of course, it's absolutely fundamental to any understanding of labor history in the American South (and to a lesser extent in the North) both before and after the Civil War. This...
Oh South Carolina, have you ever elected decent politicians? I will try to counter one clear criticism of this list. I know that there are a few state-level people who.
Faster, South Carolina, faster!South Carolina will no longer recognize U.S. currency as legal tender, if State Rep. Mike Pitts has his way.Pitts, a fourth-term Republican from Laurens, introduced legislation earlier.