Mississippi Goddam

Recent events in Mississippi and Virginia have gotten me so upset that I decided to do a retrospective of movies in the spirit of Nina Simone’s Civil Rights ballad, which cast much needed light on Confederate Heritage Month that is now being honored in some Southern States.

It seems the Civil War continues, despite it now being 150 years on. David Blight writes about the sesquicentennial, noting how we have yet to learn our lessons from...