July 5, 2005 -
A big congrats to Al McSurely, local civil rights lawyer and long-time friend of the Institute for Southern Studies, for recently winning the national NAACP's William Robert Ming Advocacy Awar
July 5, 2005 -
Another material girl turns to mysticism: Katherine Harris joins Madonna as a Kabbalah enthusiast.
July 1, 2005 -
[Like movies? So does our resident film critic, David Fellerath.]
July 1, 2005 -
For your holiday reading pleasure, here are two of Facing South's favorite pieces for Independence Day:
July 1, 2005 -
Quick activist alert: 12 Tennessee citizens are in the 11th day of a sit-in at Gov. Bredesen's (D) office in Nashville. They have been joined by 50 or more demonstrators outside, protesting Bredesen's proposed deep cuts in the TennCare health system -- almost a third of a million people kicked off the rolls.
June 30, 2005 -
The move by GOP leaders to slash Amtrak's train routes that we warned about have apparently been derailed:
June 30, 2005 -
Many pundits -- especially on the political right -- are incensed about the Supreme Court's recent verdict in Kelo v. City of New London, which backed the Connecticut town's use of eminent domain to take (with compensation) a woman's house for economic development.