Many outdated provisions have long since been invalidated, but the language that was specifically intended to enshrine white supremacy has remained.
Tag Archives: Southern States (US)
It’s Time to Get a Flu Shot
Public health experts recommend an annual flu shot, and are worried a “twindemic” with Covid-19 could further burden health care facilities this year.
Southern Republicans Cannot Be Trusted With Public Health
Some matters are too important to be entrusted to state governments anymore.
Climate Change Is Bankrupting America’s Small Towns
Repeated shocks from hurricanes, fires and floods are pushing some rural communities, already struggling economically, to the brink of financial collapse.
Why Must Wall Street Return to the Office?
Readers take issue with an Opinion guest essay about the ways of Wall Street. Also: Grandma’s advice about the vaccine; universal health care; Andrew Cuomo’s Emmy; the history of slavery.
Resistance to Vaccines in the Southern States
Readers offer personal glimpses of life in the South. Also: Senators who tested positive for Covid; Afghanistan’s lesson; hydrogen and the climate.
The South Must Teach Its Children the Truth
Attempts to restrict how students are taught about racism in schools have multiplied, but some in the South are standing in defense of real history.
Across the Country in an Automobile Built for Two
A Times reporter leaving New Jersey for a new job in Texas asks his 2008 Smart car for one more easy-parking adventure.
Covid-19 Delta Variant Widens Gulf Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated
Data from overseas, particularly Britain, suggest the spread of the virus will set vaccinated and unvaccinated communities on very different paths.
‘Critical Race Theory’ And How American History Is Taught
What progressives want, and what conservatives are fighting.
The Really Big Fight on Voting Rights Is Just Around the Corner
The John Lewis Act would reaffirm Congress’s central role in protecting the right to vote against racially discriminatory changes.
We’re Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic, and We’re Braced for the Worst
We’ve long needed federal intervention to protect abortion rights, but it’s never been more urgent.
Biden’s Covid Recovery Package Could Hinge on Tomorrow’s Job’s Report
Hint: The employment figures only tell part of the story.
Severe Weather Expected in South for Third Straight Day
At least two people have been killed, and forecasters said more tornadoes could come on Tuesday.
The Masters Is Business as Usual as Georgia Faces a Political Onslaught
Major League Baseball pulled its All-Star Game from the Atlanta area, but Georgia’s most cherished sporting event remains firmly rooted in the state.
The Painful History of the Georgia Voting Law
Republicans today know that blocking access to the ballot has always relied on legal maneuvering and political schemes.
How a Volunteer Army is Trying to Vaccinate Black People in the Rural South
In the face of limited transportation, patchy internet service and threadbare medical care, community leaders in Alabama and Mississippi are trying to shrink the racial disparities in vaccine access.
Getting the Vaccine Isn’t Easy for Black Americans in the Rural South
In the face of limited transportation, patchy internet service and threadbare medical care, community leaders in Alabama and Mississippi are trying to shrink the racial disparities in vaccine access.
Amazon Labor Fight: Wages May Not Ward Off Union
Recent organizing campaigns in the South suggest the company’s wage scale may have left it vulnerable to a union.
Tornado Watch Warns South of ‘Particularly Dangerous’ Storms
The storms were expected to bring damaging winds over 100 miles per hour and large hail to parts of the South on Wednesday evening.
Should Black Northerners Move Back to the South?
In “The Devil You Know,” Charles M. Blow argues for a Great Migration in reverse, so that Black people can exercise political power across the South.
A World of Black Intimacy at the Card Table
For the poet Hanif Abdurraqib, playing spades with his friends is about so much more than the game.
Storm Victims Didn’t Bring It on Themselves
Disasters call for compassion and action, not sniping on social media.
The 4 Great Migrations
America as we have come to know it is most likely a thing of the past.
Winter Storm Disrupts Automakers, Retailers and Delivery Services
Power outages, natural gas shortages and icy conditions made it hard for automakers, retailers and delivery carriers to operate across much of the South and Midwest.
Why Does Louisiana Consistently Lead the Nation in Murders?
It has problems common to several Southern states, like a high rate of poverty, but also an inheritance of violence.
Black History’s Place in America’s Story
The failure to appreciate Black history leaves our nation incomplete.
North Carolina Discontinues License Plates With Confederate Flag
The Division of Motor Vehicles said it had received complaints about the specialty plate, which had been issued to members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
We Need a Second Great Migration
Georgia illuminates the path to Black power. It lies in the South. Follow me there.
Christmas Eve Brings Blizzard Warnings for Midwest
Forecasters predict blizzards in the Midwest. Freezing temperatures in the South. Flooding and power outages in the Northeast. And maybe tornadoes in Florida.
How Black People Learned Not to Trust
Concerns about vaccination are unfortunate, but they have historical roots.
H.I.V. Death Rates Fell by Half 2010-2018, C.D.C. Says
From 2010-2018, significantly fewer people died of H.I.V.-related causes, although survival rates for women and people of color did not improve as much.
How Many Snowbirds Will Be Flying South for the Winter?
The tradition of flocking to Florida and other sunny shores for the winter, usually by retirees, looks different this year.
Why Evangelicals Aren’t What They Used to Be
Once a religious bloc in search of political purchase, white evangelicals have become a political bloc with a religious past.
Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites
Weddings help pay for education at American labor camp sites and connect us with history. Is that good enough?
Louisiana Man Sentenced to Life Over Theft of Hedge Clippers Is Granted Parole
Before 2017, a person in Louisiana could be sentenced to life in prison after receiving a fourth nonviolent conviction under the state’s habitual offender law.
A Counter to Confederate Monuments, Black Cemeteries Tell a Fuller Story of the South
Many have fallen into disrepair, the victims of mismanagement, political strife or abandonment. Now there’s an effort to restore and protect them.
It Hurts to Keep Hoping for Justice
No police officer will have to answer for Breonna Taylor’s death. This never gets easier.
Julia Reed, Chronicler of Politics, Food and the South, Dies at 59
In Ms. Reed’s writing for Newsweek, Vogue and other publications, her canvas included the follies of the powerful and the pleasures of Southern food.
5 Standout Recipes From Julia Reed, an Irreverent Voice of the South
The journalist, who died last week at 59, mixed sophistication and down-home pleasures in her cooking.
The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists
The 1873 murders of dozens of former slaves in a flyspeck Louisiana town still reverberate.
The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction
“The Saddest Words,” by the scholar Michael Gorra, argues that America’s troubled racial past is the central, if often unspoken, theme at the heart of Faulkner’s work.
Pediatric Doctors Group Apologizes for Racist Past Toward Black Physicians
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently joined other prominent medical organizations in confronting its history of discrimination.
When China Met Iran
A growing partnership between America’s main Middle East adversary and Asia’s rising superpower bears careful watching in Washington.
The First Time John Lewis and I Integrated the Buses
We just got on and sat in the front row. The bus driver insisted that we move to the back. But we didn’t move.
C.T. Vivian, Martin Luther King’s Field General, Dies at 95
A disciplined advocate of nonviolence, he was on the front lines in the 1960s movement for racial justice.
C.T. Vivian, Civil Rights Leader, Is Dead at 95
A close associate of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he was a disciplined advocate of nonviolence in the battle for racial justice.
Milley Calls for ‘Hard Look’ at Renaming Bases Honoring Confederates
Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a House hearing that “there is no place in our armed forces for manifestations, or symbols of racism, bias or discrimination.”
A Plague of Willful Ignorance
Trump has empowered America’s anti-rational streak.
The Walls of the Church Couldn’t Keep the Trump Era Out
The young pastor wasn’t sure his congregation would like what he had to say and had no idea where it would lead all of them. He found himself at a crossroads of God, Alabama and Donald Trump.