Tennessee Legislature makes (up) history!
The Tennessee legislature -- with a Republican supermajority made up largely of historical illiterates -- is now in the business of mandating how history is to be taught.HB 1129 and SB 1266 require all...
View ArticleFamily of GA teen found dead in gym mat sues funeral home
It's been over a year since Kendrick Johnson was found dead in a rolled-up gym mat at Lowndes County High School in Valdosta, Georgia. According to sheriff's investigators and the county medical...
View ArticleHomophobic activist Eugene Delgaudio may lose his job as Loudoun County...
Surprised no one's noticed this, but one of the nation's most virulent homophobes is in a fight to keep his day job. Eugene Delgaudio is best known as the head of Public Advocate of the United States,...
View ArticleFraternity suspends Ole Miss chapter after three members suspected of...
Yesterday, it emerged that the three freshmen at Ole Miss who vandalized a statue of James Meredith with a noose and a confederate flag had all recently joined the school's chapter of Sigma Phi...
View ArticleOle Miss frat makes first public comments since turfing three members who...
For those who missed it, there was a major development this weekend in the case of the vandalizing of James Meredith's statue at Ole Miss. It turns out the three freshmen who pulled this stunt were...
View ArticleGeorgia legislature considering near-carbon copy of anti-gay Arizona bill
The proposed law in Arizona that would allow businesses to discriminate against gays and others for religious reasons is a legal and economic disaster waiting to happen. Well, apparently some...
View ArticleCharlotte's water supply is three miles from coal ash ponds
There's a frightening story on the front page of today's Charlotte Observer. The water supply for the nation's 17th-largest city is only three miles downstream from a massive stockpile of coal ash at...
View ArticleNC regulators to inspect all of Duke Energy's coal ash ponds--and want...
The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources announced late yesterday that it will inspect all of Duke Energy's coal ash ponds next week--and also demanded that the nation's...
View ArticleDuke Energy wants to shift cost of closing coal ash ponds to customers
Last week, Duke Energy was slapped with a demand from the North Carolina governor's office to come up with a plan to shut down its coal ash ponds across the state. Yesterday, Duke CEO Lynn Good...
View ArticleDuke Energy illegally pumped coal ash into Cape Fear River
Duke Energy is in hot water again over coal ash. Earlier this month, local environmentalists noticed Duke was pumping down coal ash lagoons at a retired power plant. That triggered an investigation...
View ArticleGay couples in NC seek immediate end to gay-marriage ban for health reasons
North Carolina's odious Amendment One, which wrote a ban on same-sex marriage into the state constitution, could be deep-sixed later this year when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rules on whether...
View ArticleNC-Sen: Local press silent so far on Tillis' macaca moment
As many of you know, North Carolina state house speaker Thom Tillis is in a bit of trouble after a 2012 interview surfaced that caught him in a macaca moment. Tillis, who is trying to derail Kay...
View ArticleThe ghastly drug war case in Georgia you probably haven't heard much about
One of the most gut-wrenching stories of 2014 is arguably that of Bounkham "Baby Bou Bou" Phonesavanh. He and his family were staying in Cornelia, Georgia--an hour north of Atlanta-- after their house...
View ArticleRemoval of Andrew Jackson's name from the Tennessee Democratic Party's annual...
The annual and biggest fundraiser of the Tennessee Democratic Party is called Jackson Day named after President Andrew Jackson. Jackson was an 1812 War Hero, the founder of the Democratic Party and...
View ArticleBroken government comes from a broken electorate
"It stung like hell." - Georgia Democratic Party Chair, DuBose Porter, in a conciliatory email to party activists If a dramatic election happens and no one votes, does it still mean the electorate...
View ArticleAROMA - creating sustainable activism across Atlanta movements
"I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do." - I'd Love to Change the World, Ten Years After, 1971, by Alvin Lee Affecting change is hard. Screaming for social justice can be...
View ArticleElecting Democrats in the South eases the path to Liberal Progressivism
Time, money and faith - this is the most I have given of all three to Democrats in Georgia. I've written posts. I've knocked on nearly 400 doors. I've opened my wallet to attend and host fundraisers....
View ArticleWhat if legislators didn't have to draw majority-minority districts?...
Districts in the Deep South won by President Obama, all majority-minority The Voting Rights Act saw one of its main enforcement mechanisms gutted last summer in the controversial and partisan 5-4...
View ArticleSouth Carolina comes to grips with history [video]
Stay tuned for my upcoming diary about being in Columbia, S.C., for this historic event.
View ArticleYes, losing the Confederate flag really means something to South Carolina
When I posted on Facebook last Thursday, that I was thinking about going to Columbia, South Carolina, the next day to watch them finally furl the Confederate flag, I got a little pushback from some of...
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