Culture
June 26, 2008 -
The latest Institute Index -- about deep budget cuts at newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. -- as featured in our e-newsletter Facing South. If you don't get Facing South, sign up now in the box in the upper right hand corner!
June 19, 2008 -
Today is Juneteenth, a holiday marking the day that, in 1865, slaves in Texas were finally told they were free -- two months and 10 days after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ullyses S. Grant at Appomattox.
June 13, 2008 -
There have been fresh developments in two high-profile cases of dog abuse by men in uniform -- incidents that just happened to be caught on camera.
June 13, 2008 -
For more than 30 years, rap music has shaped the enterta
June 5, 2008 -
It was 40 years ago today that Robert F. Kennedy, fresh off a primary win in California and hopeful of winning the 1968 Democratic nomination, was felled by 24-year-old Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles.
June 2, 2008 -
The South has lost a cultural icon with rock star Bo Diddley's death today from heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla. He was 79.
May 30, 2008 -
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is making the news show rounds to discuss his new book about the Bush administration's use of propaganda to promote the war against Iraq and its state of denial during the Hurricane Katrina disaster, among other things.
