Opinion: The South Must Teach Its Children the Truth
A damning indictment of ignoring the truth…
NY Times Opinion: My Body Is a Confederate Monument’: Slavery, Rape and Reframing the Past
In the New York Times on July 3, Caroline Randall Williams discusses her essay that puts Black Southerners like her squarely at the heart of the debate.
Article: Confederates’ Lost Cause still cripples the South’s economy
While focused on Memphis primarily, this article from MLK50* has ramifications for the entire south and, upon a bit of extrapolation, implications about the future of the University.The following excerpt frames the article nicely.
Dabney S. Lancaster to Change Name
Update: WSLS also has the story up now. This provides a bit more detail than the article linked below.
White Supremacy Was on Trial at Washington and Lee University. It Won.
Not Unmindful’s own Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor of law at the School of Law, writes for Slate. Professor Habrouck opens the article with a brief summation of history, unadulterated and not wrapped in any mythmaking before getting to the main point of the article, as the title summarizes.
Opinion: What Washington and Lee has embraced
In an op-ed in the Washington Post in reaction to the announcement by the board of trustees, Colbert I. King lays out the answer to this question very clearly.
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