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May 31, 2005 - In the wake of the cross burnings that marred Durham last week, there is going to be a city-wide Unity Rally on Sunday, June 5th at 4 pm. The location is still being finalized. The rally is being put on by the Durham Human Relations Commission. We'll keep you posted as we learn more details.

May 31, 2005 - We're back from the Memorial Day weekend, luckily without any new cross burnings to report.

May 27, 2005 - It's offical: David Wilkins, Speaker of the South Carolina House, has been confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Canada, a country with which the U.S.

May 27, 2005 - A couple smaller points I didn't make in my last post about the Durham cross burnings, because that post was getting way too long:

May 26, 2005 - How the Texas legislature became the fine deliberative body it is today. From the Associated Press (via truthout):

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.