Charleston Scene: My Charleston Weekend: Ending June with a bang

We’ve reached the last weekend in June, so many of us are preparing for the hot summer months ahead of us. While exciting events like Fourth of July are right around the corner, we’re not there just yet.  But you can still celebrate this weekend with a blast! Well, a cannon blast that is, at

Common Dreams: “I’s Free, I’s Free”: Let The Story Be Told

Aptly for a nation built on racism, Juneteenth marks not the actual day enslaved black Texans were declared free but the day Union troops bothered to tell them they were free – months after the Civil War ended, and two years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Today, black Americans beset by newly bold white supremacy, from the erasure