by Robert Parham | Jul 17, 2013 | Opinion
Bearing false witness reached a fever pitch immediately following the jury acquittal of George Zimmerman. One side charged that the “New South” was nothing more than the “Old South,” as if nothing had changed in the last 50 years. The Florida...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Jul 5, 2013 | Opinion
It is common knowledge that the perennial Food Network star, Paula Deen, has used a condescending and derogatory term toward African Americans and spoken warmly of the world of the genteel antebellum (pre-Civil War) South. Before this news-making revelation, Deen and...
by Chuck Warnock | Jun 25, 2013 | Opinion
By now, the story that Paula Deen casually admitted she had used racial epithets is old news. Further revelations that she also considered a “plantation-themed” wedding complete with white-jacketed African American men as waiters contributed to the...
by John D. Pierce | May 20, 2013 | Opinion
My recollections of the civil rights movement of the ’60s are rather limited. I was sheltered from much of the reality and shaped by a social context that placed blame solely on “troublemakers” like Martin Luther King Jr. Living in a community where...
by Sara Powell | May 16, 2013 | Opinion
Living in the South during Jim Crow days, though certainly less restricted than during the time before emancipation, was fraught with danger for people of African heritage. Even though I grew up in those days, my “white” world in southwestern Virginia...
