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• 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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• When Johnny Reb comes marching to Hot Springs

  They are assembling for and against white supremacist symbols in Hot Springs today. Photographs by Brian Chilson of the Arkansas Times.

• Dixie's Defenders and the scrapheap of history

  And you thought the Civil War was over. Supercharged by a neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville and Donald Trump's signal of sympathy, the Rebel remnants of America and assorted white supremacists, bigots and garden variety nuts have taken up arms in defense of symbols of the Lost Cause.

• 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.

• 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.

• The pariah president to skip Kennedy Center event honorees planned to boycott

  The White House announced early this morning that Donald Trump would not participate in the annual Kennedy Center event paying tribute to influential artists. He didn't want to be a political distraction, a release said.

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• Re: The pariah president to skip Kennedy Center event honorees planned to boycott

  • The self-congratulatory, incestuous, clique of "artistes" who presume to push personal politics rather than their…

  • Posted by baker
  • on August 19, 2017

• Re: Dixie's Defenders and the scrapheap of history

  • Golfer, you're right on the money re mass hysteria, given that the least rumor of…

  • Posted by tsallenarng
  • on August 19, 2017

• Re: When Johnny Reb comes marching to Hot Springs

  • Sandra Mason wrote "...your 'southern belle' dress from your grandma's dining room curtains!..." Yes...however, as…

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  • on August 19, 2017

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