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1 week ago |
restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |D.G. Martin
Are you a dingbatter? This word is used by local people in Ocracoke to describe the crowds of tourists and other visitors. It is better on Ocracoke Island to be an Ocracoker, with longstanding connections to the island, its people and its special dialect, known as the Ocracoke Brogue. The complicated and rich story of the brogue is expanded in […]
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2 weeks ago |
restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |D.G. Martin
Do you remember what a “segregation scholarship” is — or was? “A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs” by Crystal R. Sanders explains. Sanders shows that these so-called “segregation scholarships” were an important part of efforts to maintain segregation in higher education during a time of changing rules and regulations about race. Under the Supreme Court’s Plessy v.
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1 month ago |
restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |D.G. Martin
In February, I wrote a column on Rob Christensen’s book about the Raleigh News & Observer, “Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century.” I concentrated on Josephus Daniels, the paper’s founder and longtime owner. Rob Christensen had tackled the difficult job of explaining how Daniels could be known as both a progressive and a racist while also a newspaper owner and editor.
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2 months ago |
restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |D.G. Martin
Jane Borden’s new book “Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America” has us thinking about cults. The Manson family and Branch Davidians come to mind. Borden, who grew up in Greensboro and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill, is a proven writer. Her 2011 book about living and working in New York after college, “I Totally Meant to Do That,” showcased […]
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2 months ago |
restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |D.G. Martin
Every day, news outlets feature Elon Musk and his activities with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk has been leading a charge against wasteful government spending. It has been a wild and disruptive ride, and I wanted to know more about this strange man who has Donald Trump eating out of his hand. A friend loaned me a copy […]
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