by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 25, 2020 | Features, Politics
Since the boiling cauldron of the 1960’s reawakened an assertive religiously conservative faction, social conservatism has played a potent role in North Carolina and American politics. Politicians such as Jesse Helms, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush rode...
by William Shaw | Jun 23, 2020 | Features, Politics |
“South Pacific” opened in 1949 and became one of Broadway’s longest running hits. It features Nellie Forbush, a Navy nurse from rural Arkansas stationed on a South Pacific island who falls in love with a sophisticated French planter, Emile De Becque. She rejects his...
by Blair Reeves | Jun 18, 2020 | Features, Politics |
It’s ironic that during one of the prettiest springs North Carolina has had in years, COVID-19 is wreaking havoc in our state. A million people are out of work and hundreds are dead. “Normal” is a half-forgotten memory, and we’re calling into question what new...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 11, 2020 | Features, Politics |
The growing push to remove monuments to the Confederacy has metastasized to statues of Christopher Columbus. Protesters in Richmond and Minneapolis toppled statues of the Genoa explorer, and a monument to him in Boston was beheaded. The beheading, in my view, was the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 9, 2020 | Features, Politics |
On a lonely North Carolina highway bordered by soybean fields and rusting tobacco sheds, the Sons of Confederate Veterans put up a billboard. “Save your family history!” it exclaims over a picture of the Confederate Battle Flag. In the real world, that...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 1, 2020 | Features, Politics |
It took only 12 years after the founding of Jamestown for the South to take a sip form the poisoned chalice of white supremacy. The region, like much of the Soviet empire, was literally built by slave labor. And one year removed from the 400th anniversary of the...
