Independent thinking expressed intelligently
Day 1: Killarney to the Black Valley You wake up in the dark. The wind outside is screaming. It’s the sea-bred, haystack-leveling wind that howled around Yeats’s tower and his stone bridge a hundred years ago. For an hour the poet paced and thought while gloom came in his mind. You’re not pacing. You’re lying […]
By Steve Bailey. This column first appeared in the Post & Courier. Congratulations, graduates: Take a bow because you have earned it, whether you are getting that diploma from high school or college. We are proud of you. Now comes the hard part, that elusive, scary thing called “success” in your life ahead. In an […]
It feels as if tonight, for a couple of hours, we’re enacting what MLK called the beloved community here at the Charleston Area Justice Ministry (CAJM) meeting at Mount Moriah Baptist Church on Rivers Avenue.
[Steve Bailey is doing a great job keeping an eye on the growing scandal of SCANA’s nuclear reactor project. Here is his latest op-ed from the Post and Courier.] So with consumers yelling for heads to roll, what is South Carolina Electric & Gas planning next? The largest stock buyback in the company’s history, which […]
On May 23rd, during the Citizens’ Participation portion of the Charleston City Council meeting, members of the Charleston Area Justice Ministry (CAJM) spoke about the need for the city to hire an external auditor to investigate racial bias in the police department. At CAJM’s Nehemiah Assembly in April, we highlighted this issue in more detail and […]
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