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May 26, 2005 - Continuing with the theme of atavistic racist behavior: this goes back a few years, but Rex Chapman, one-time "Boy King of Kentucky," has recently been giving interviews about some

May 26, 2005 - Sometimes, despite everything you think you know about progress, human decency, the New South, and all that, the history we so often want to forget slouches rudely into the open. Last night, for the first time in recent memory, the Institute's hometown, Durham, North Carolina, was the site of three cross-burnings.

May 25, 2005 - Readers of Facing South may not know this, but today is a special day on the far-right evangelical circuit.

May 25, 2005 - Southern history buffs should definitely check out Institute friend Judy Richardson's documentary "Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters," which will premiere on the History Channel tomorrow, May 26, from 8-10 p.m.

May 25, 2005 - Are you a progressive Southern blogger? Know of a good blog operating from the Southland?

May 25, 2005 - In 1963, historian Howard Zinn was fired from Spelman College, where he was chair of the History Department, because of his involvement in the black freedom movement. This year, he was honored by the school and invited to give the commencement address.

May 24, 2005 - Both the Birmingham News and Raleigh News and Observer are running good series on how lax trucking regulations are damaging highways and endangering motorists in their respective states.