Peter Simoneaux
Icons are no cause for nostalgia
This issue of taking down Confederate monuments has been brewing for several years, since the tragic murder of nine African-Americans by white supremacist Dylann Roof, in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., on June 17, 2015.
This act was so revolting to even conservative white southerners as to prompt the Republican governor and legislature to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse.
Bernie blackout
It appears to me every bit of an orchestrated policy of “See No Sanders, Hear No Sanders, Speak No Sanders†on the part of National Public Radio
I've written to NPR to express my disappointment and disapproval of what I'm perceiving to be a conscious and deliberate blackout of coverage of Bernie Sanders' campaign for president of the United States. I am a longtime listener of NPR, and a longtime supporter of both Vermont Public Radio...