Southern Politics
June 23, 2009 -
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June 22, 2009 -
This past March, Facing South was one of the first places to reveal that a widely-quoted study claiming the Employee Free Choice Act would lead to widespread unemployment was
June 19, 2009 -
Health care reform advocates are changing up their tactics this week as they target lawmakers, particularly ones in the South, who have been opposing President Barack Obama's proposal for a public insurance option.Health Care for Amer
June 19, 2009 -
As we celebrate Juneteenth today, here's a short piece explaining the holiday that we ran on Facing South last year. Enjoy! Today is Juneteenth,a holiday marking the day that, in 1865, slaves in Texas were finallytold they were free -- two months and 10 days after Robert E. Leesurrendered to Ullyses S. Grant at Appomattox.The slave mastershad never bothered to tell them that slavery was officially over in1863; it took Union General Gordon Granger riding into Galveston with
June 11, 2009 -
At today's memorial for John Hope Franklin at Duke University, playwright Emily Mann -- daughter of historian Arthur Mann, a close friend of Franklin's -- related one of many illuminating personal stories about the pioneering historian and scholar.
June 11, 2009 -
The Tennessee Valley Authority's Inspector General released an audit this week