I was taken aback today to see several people carrying giant Confederate flags on Stone Mountain. As much as I prefer to focus on all of the progress ...(More)
X Marx The Spot
"On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two ...(More)
In Memoriam Malcolm X
Malcolm X was assassinated 50 years ago today in New York City, and there’s a particular slab of granite on Stone Mountain with the name “Shabazz” ...(More)
Maddox Gets the Axe
Among the many bygone carvings on Stone Mountain is a faded one just before the top that reads "Lester For Gov 67." I'm pretty certain it refers to ...(More)
If Charles McNair Could Choose a Color to Be
How fitting that my old friend, author Charles McNair, who was on assignment for The Bitter Southerner, and I met today at Stone Mountain on the ...(More)
A Nation of Immigrants
These initials are surely someone else's, but it's more fun to think of President John F. Kennedy whenever I pass this carving on top of Stone ...(More)
Voyage of the St. Louis
News of restored relations between the U.S. and Cuba making headlines this week during Hanukkah has me remembering the 937 Jewish refugees seeking ...(More)
Rebirth of a Nation, Silent No More
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery was ratified today, on December 6, 1865 (150 years ago next year). It states: "Neither ...(More)
