Authors' suit charges racial bias in history book By CHAT BLAKEMAN Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Tue, August 29, 1979 Is a ninth-grade cl...

I’m working on a project.  I don’t know what to call it yet.  Part of it might be “Lies My Mother Never Told Me.”  For this project, I’ve ma...

 The genius of the Citizens Council, the thing that made them both the most effective and the most evil, was that they equated segregation w...

Some edits of "Birth of A Nation," of which there are many, end with a title card praising Lincoln and his plan to repatriate the ...

There's a fairly popular myth that woke liberal politicians broke in and changed the Mississippi state flag in the middle of the night, ...

In the larger world, we talk about the baby boom generation, generation x, and millennials.  In Mississippi, there's only one generation...

Mississippi never leads nor follows.  It intensifies whatever fears and prejudices are already present in the larger society as if to say, ...

 Wayne LaPierre and the NRA are big fans of the idea that a "good guy with a gun" is all you need to solve the problem of "ba...

 In Lee: The Last Years, Flood quotes one of the "KA Five" as saying of Lee that "We likened him unto Agamemnon."  I alw...

 Last night on the news, they interviewed a woman who had a fire in her neighborhood, but the Firemen couldn’t find the hydrant, and when th...

Civil Rights, Culture Wars: The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook by Charles W. Eagles I've just been made aware of this book, but I...

 1985.  Ruben Anderson is appointed to the Mississippi State Supreme Court.  My dad decided to have a dinner party in his honor.  My dad was...

I don't use the phrase "Ross Barnett Reservoir."  I don't use it because Ross Barnett was an asshole, and I"m embarra...

It's probably not possible, but part of me would like federal authorities to put off Frank Melton's retrial until after we elect a n...

Even though they've issued an apology, people are still simmering over the New York Post's Obama-Chimp cartoon. It's offensive, ...