Southern Charm Is Back and Weird as Ever
The Season 4 premiere of Southern Charm opens with Thomas Ravenel, a 54-year-old former South Carolina State Treasurer who was indicted on federal cocaine distribution charges and removed from office in 2007.
Heritage Act Keeps Confederate Flags Flying in South Carolina
After nine Charleston, South Carolina churchgoers were slain in 2015 by white supremacist Dylann Roof, the nation turned a condemnatory gaze towards the Confederate flag flying at the Statehouse. After much protest, it was ceremoniously removed. However, the 15-year-old Heritage Act has ensured that the rebel flag …
Dylann Roof Changes His Mind About Representing Himself During Trial
Dylann Roof was given permission to represent himself by U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel in late November. Roof was arrested for the murder of nine parishioners at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, and faces the death penalty.
Racist West Virginia Officials Call Michelle Obama an 'Ape in Heels'
We have never deserved Michelle Obama: it’s a truth made more certain with each passing day. And we’ve been reminded anew by two grotesquely racist officials in West Virginia who recently referred to her as an “ape in heels.”
Well, I'll Be! Southern Charm Gets Renewed, Expands From Charleston to Savannah, Georgia
There is probably no Bravo series as horribly addictive as Southern Charm, with its trust funds and stupid family names and loving references to Henry Kissinger and embarrassing meetings with Vox Media’s Lockhart Steele. If you are, like me, trapped in a confusing relationship with these upsetting libertarians, you’re…
Dylann Roof's Lawyers Argue That Death Penalty Is Unconstitutional
On June 17, 2015, white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine people worshipping inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Nearly a year later, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that, in light of Roof’s crimes, the Department of Justice would pursue the death penalty. But…
The South Carolina Senate has voted to remove the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds. The New York Times reports that the vote was 37-3. The Senate still has one more procedural vote to ratify the bill. The House will also have to vote in a two-thirds majority to remove the flag.
SC Debate on Removing Confederate Flag Starts with Anti-Gay Rhetoric
Monday morning in the South Carolina Legislature, state lawmakers began debating whether or not to take down the Confederate flag that flies on State Capitol property. The removal is likely, but lawmakers will also debate whether they should hold a ceremony to commemorate taking down the flag or put it back up yearly…
Charleston Gunman's Sister Solicits Donations... For Her Wedding
The sister of Dylann Roof—the man who walked into a black church in Charleston, South Carolina and gunned down nine people during their bible study—is soliciting funds to pay for her wedding that was postponed following the tragedy.
As Black Churches Burn, Feds Close In on Suspect in CVS Arson
Right now, there’s a federal manhunt for the man who burned a Baltimore CVS. After two months of prolonged public investigation, the ATF has finally fingered the man responsible: one Raymon Carter, age 24, black, five-foot-eight, 180 pounds. He’s probably “fit the description” for a decade now—but now, the description…
Bree Newsome Releases Statement: 'I Refuse to Be Ruled By Fear'
Bree Newsome, the heroic woman who climbed a flagpole in Columbia, South Carolina and briefly removed the Confederate flag that still waves over the capitol building, has spoken out about her actions.
The Power and Sadness of a Black President's Call for Grace
On Friday, South Carolina Senator and Rev. Clementa Pinckney was memorialized in a packed auditorium at the College Of Charleston. As his wife and two young daughters sat and suffered what must be the worst moment of their short lives, President Obama delivered Pinckney’s eulogy with fervor and deliberation. It was…
Watch Obama Lead Charleston's Emanuel AME in Singing 'Amazing Grace'
Barack Obama’s eulogy for South Carolina State Senator and Emanuel AME Reverend Clementa Pinckney, delivered on the heels of a historic stretch of American tragedy and renewal, was a defining moment of his Presidency—as well as the ragged, bloody, gorgeous reckoning with social justice that’s been forced into the…
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SC Governor Will Reportedly Call for Confederate Flag to Be Removed
Days after nine people were murdered in a racist attack on a black church in Charleston, and after studiously ignoring the issue for as long as she could, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is holding a press conference at 4 p.m. today, where she’ll reportedly call for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies…
We Are Not Free
It’s been a terrible few weeks for the black body.
Hillary Clinton: 'Long Struggle With Race is Far From Finished'
Earlier today Hillary Clinton delivered a speech at US Conference of Mayors in San Francisco where she addressed the murder of nine people at Charleston’s Emmanuel A.M.E Church. Clinton spoke about the “hard truths of race and justice in America,” and called for “common sense” gun reform measures.
White Supremacists Sort of Disavow Dylann Roof, But Not the NRA!
On Thursday night, an NRA board member manipulated the national tragedy at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church by turning the murders into an argument for his political gain, because this is America.
Infuriated Jon Stewart Can't Even Bring Himself to Joke About Charleston
Jon Stewart scrapped whatever plans he had for the Daily Show last night and devoted a pretty stunning two full segments to railing about the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.
That Time Don Lemon Was Called an 'Uncle Tom' on Live TV
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