I'm an old White Guy from Mississippi. I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two. I mention this not only because I...

Sunday Liz and I and some neighbors went to see the movie: The Free State of Jones. Don't miss it. It is a very well researched and ...

This is a day we should all celebrate.

The first election I remember is 1948. Republicans were certain of victory. President Truman was not as popular as Roosevelt had been. The c...

I was dismayed to learn this morning of the mass shooting in a historic black church in downtown Charleston, SC. The suspect, a 21 year ol...

Years ago, I read a magazine article by an American journalist who had travelled to South Africa, then under apartheid. He described being a...

The clock on life is ticking. If you wait for life to be fair you may be waiting until life is over.  - Charles M. Blow

Here is a link to a commercial that aired during last night's NBA final: http://deadspin.com/heres-the-anti-redskins-commercial-that-wil...

Some of my ancestors owned slaves - from as early as the 1650's in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and possibly Georgia, Arkansas and Texa...

Yesterday I provided a link to an article by Michael Lind shedding light on Republican strategy. A strategy, by the way, that has been prett...

The March on Washington is one of those events that people use to mark time and transformation. "Did you go?," people ask. "W...

Economic historian Brad DeLong has raised another interesting question: "why did the Republicans in 1876 abandon their most reliable su...

When Haley Barbour of Yazoo City, Mississippi (where my father was born in 1915 and my brother in 1941) was appointed Chair of the Republica...

Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the child Strom Thurmond had with a black maid, passed away on Monday, February 4, 2013. This photogra...

I've been watching this for a long time, so I thought I'd share some observations. In the past year, I have read a number of artic...

Meet Booker Wright. He was filmed for a documentary in 1965 by a white movie maker trying to present Mississippi's story from the point ...

Here's a thought-provoking op-ed from the New York Times tying the Trayvon Martin killing to the rapid growth of gated communities and ...

I didn't watch last weekend's republican debate, and no new polls are out yet. Still, one of the surprising results of polling to da...

William Faulkner once observed that the past isn't dead - it isn't even past. Not that there aren't people who try to bury it. T...