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• Lynchings hidden in the history of the Hot Springs Confederate monument

  Hot Springs twice erupted into the kind of violence that has its roots in the issues left unresolved by the Civil War, and both times, it happened right where that monument to Confederate soldiers stands today.

• Take yourself there: Mavis Staples coming to LR for Central High performance

  Gospel and R&B singer and civil rights activist Mavis Staples, who has been inspiring fans with gospel-inflected freedom songs like "I'll Take You There" and "March Up Freedom's Highway" and the poignant "Oh What a Feeling" will come to Little Rock for the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of Central High.

• Klan's president

  Everything that Donald Trump does — make that everything that he says — is calculated to thrill his lustiest disciples. But he is discovering that what was brilliant for a politician is a miscalculation for a president, because it deepens the chasm between him and most Americans.

• On Charlottesville

  Watching the Charlottesville spectacle from halfway across the country, I confess that my first instinct was to raillery. Vanilla ISIS, somebody called this mob of would-be Nazis. A parade of love-deprived nerds marching bravely out of their parents' basements carrying tiki torches from Home Depot.

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• Police identify three dead in Birchwood

  Police have now released some details about the apparent slaying Sunday of two children and suicide of the man who killed them on Birchwood Drive in West Little Rock. Court recordx indicate the suspect had a history of domestic violence.

• University of Texas removes Confederate statues

  Confederate statuary was removed overnight from a prominent spot on the University of Texas campus because they symbolize white supremacy and neo-Nazism, the university president said.

• Eclipse day. Woodstock?

  I was amused by the excitement of a NASA scientist over today's eclipse, as reported by CNN.

• Open line and Civil War update

  More Confederacy defenders were on hand in Bentonville against imagined threats to a one of hte Confederate statues put up long after the Civil War to spin a narrative about the noble Lost Cause.

• Arkansas-linked Charlottesville marcher identified, apologizes to those misidentified

  A man who says he's a former University of Arkansas student now living in New England has identified himself as the person wearing an "Arkansas Engineering" T-shirt in the Friday white supremacist march in Fayetteville. He apologized for involving UA in the story and to the professor misidentified as being the person wearing the shirt.

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• Re: Corporate welfare is a failure. So why does it keep increasing?

  • It continues because Republicans hold reign right now. Trickle down economics. Make the richer with…

  • Posted by Cato1
  • on August 21, 2017

• Re: University of Texas removes Confederate statues

  • Slavery is OVER! It's almost like it NEVER existed! But say, the confederacy is also…

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  • on August 21, 2017

• Re: University of Texas removes Confederate statues

  • Jake, this is 2017 and there ain't no more slaves. Let the heros and leders…

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  • on August 21, 2017

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