AL Political Reporter: “Austin, a Mobile native, is a 1975 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and retired after serving as the commander of U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations and coordination in the Middle East. After retirement, Austin served on the boards of Raytheon, Nucor and Tenet Healthcare, and was…
Month: January 2021
“We Need a Second Great Migration”
NY Times: “Simply put, my proposition was this: that Black people reverse the Great Migration — the mass migration of millions of African-Americans largely from the rural South to cities primarily in the North and West that spanned from 1916 to 1970. That they return to the states where they had been at or near…
“Civil Rights Leader Rev. William Barber to Deliver Homily at Official Inaugural Prayer Service”
WaPo: The Rev. William J. Barber II, a fiery North Carolina preacher and anti-poverty crusader, will deliver the homily at the official inaugural prayer service at Washington National Cathedral, the inaugural committee announced Tuesday. “I’m just so deeply humbled to be asked to do this sermon in a place of deep prayer,” Barber said in…
“Maybe this is the year we get rid of Confederate Heroes Day”
Off the Kuff: I mean, it was just two years ago that we were finally able to get a Confederate plaque removed at the Capitol, though later in that same session the Senate approved a bill that would make it virtually impossible to remove any other Confederate monuments around the state. (That bill did not come to a vote in…
“Your Right to Know: How to find Toxics Release Inventory Data for your Community”
NC Policy Watch: “The Toxics Release Inventory, administered by the EPA, collects data from industrial facilities for 770 chemicals, and reports the findings by state, city, county, Zip code, industry and chemical. There are some data shortcomings: Not all toxic chemicals are included in the TRI and the data is self-reported. Nonetheless, the TRI is a valuable…
“What Jon Ossof Means for the South and its buried Jewish past”
WaPo: “When it was clear after Georgia’s runoff elections earlier this month that Democrat Jon Ossoff had been elected to the U.S. Senate, making him the first Jew since 1974 to win statewide national office in the South, I thought of the haunting story of Lucille Frank’s interment, which Alan Marcus had shared with me while I…
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