Soul music was a fundamental part of American history as it influenced and gave voice to the Civil Rights movement. The combination of gospel, R&B, and jazz conveyed the African-American identity with pride and charisma. Handclaps, tense vocals, and improvisation are a few distinguishing characteristics that make soul music so lively and fun to listen to. Artists like Otis Redding and Donny... Source

The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency stay, blocking a lower court order requiring the Virginia to add aliens back to the voter rolls after the state’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, had ordered them removed. “The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is granted,” the Supreme Court wrote in an order Wednesday. The case, Susan Beals v. Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, pits Beals, the commissioner for the Virginia Department of Elections, against left-leaning activist groups including the League of Women Voters Virginia and African Communities Together. The U.S. Justice Department joined the case on the side of the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights. The nation’s highest court blocked an Oct. 25 order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which required Virginia to add back to the rolls aliens that the commonwealth had removed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit had allowed the Oct. 25 order to stand while it considers the case. The Supreme Court justices appointed by former President Barack Obama and current President Joe Biden—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson—would have denied the application for a stay. The Supreme Court’s stay will last until the Fourth Circuit determines the case. If the Fourth Circuit rules against Virginia and Virginia appeals to the Supreme Court, the stay will last until the Supreme Court either rejects the appeal or resolves the case. The Justice Department sued Virginia after it removed the names of 6,303 aliens and Alabama after it moved 3,251 aliens to an “inactive” list. The Justice Department claims that Virginia and Alabama violated the National Voter Registration Act’s 90-day preelection deadline for “systematic” list maintenance programs. The Justice Department claims that this deadline prevents all “systematic” removals from a voter registration list within 90 days of an election. Yet critics, like The Heritage Foundation’s senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky, note that many federal statutes forbid aliens from claiming to be a U.S. citizen in order to register to vote, which is a felony. According to von Spakovsky, the Justice Department “has a duty to enforce these statutes, something the agency apparently has no interest in doing under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris” (emphasis original). Former President Donald Trump seems unlikely to prevail against Vice President Harris, the Democratic nominee, in the Old Dominion. Biden won Virginia by 10% in 2020, and Harris still enjoys a 5.8% lead over Trump in the RealClearPolitics polling average. However, the race has tightened in recent days, with some polls showing Harris’ lead shrinking to 2%. While Virginia still has a large rural community, it is also home to a large number of federal bureaucrats who live outside the Washington, D.C., area. ?BREAKING: Supreme Court grants emergency stay allowing Virginia to keep aliens off the voter rolls.Huge win for election integrity in the lead-up to the Nov. 5 election.NOTE: Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would oppose the stay. pic.twitter.com/b0627YHtJO— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 30, 2024 The post BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Lower Court Order Forcing Virginia to Add Aliens to Voter Rolls appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Even its name sounds like something fantastic deliberately conceived to conjure ghosts – but Chillingham Castle has a long and storied history. In the 12th century Chillingham was home to a monastery. By the 13th century, due to incursions from Scottish forces, the castle was built and Edward I, ‘Hammer of the Scots’, led his Scottish campaigns from this location. Over the years it’s been host to several noble families, but nowadays it’s best known as the home to dozens of ghosts. Historian Eleanor Janega braves Chillingham Castle and its gathering of ghosts in the film Exploring the Medieval Afterlife on History Hit. Sign up to watch Unlike other medieval ghost stories, the first recorded accounts of Chillingham’s ghost tales are much more recent. They were penned by Lady Leonora Tankerville, who moved there from the United States after marrying the Earl of Tankerville in 1895. This was “something of a golden age for ghost stories,” says Janega. “The Victorian and Edwardian eras were a time of great modernization and secularism with major shifts away from religious explanations of the natural world.” “But the flip side of all this worldly rationalism was that it actually increased interest in the occult and spiritualism,” explains Janega. “Ghost stories were a hugely popular part of fiction as people became increasingly interested in the paranormal, seances, and finding different ways of interacting with the dead. Places like Chillingham found themselves in the middle of the spiritualist revival.” Lady Tankerville’s reports of Chillingham’s ghosts were even commended by author and fellow supernatural enthusiast Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Given the battles on the Scottish borders, perhaps it’s no wonder that there are so many reports of ghosts. The ghosts she wrote about would seem to continue to trouble today’s residents. “In the 18th century there was a figure who spent his time wailing and moaning and shimmering in blue,” explains its current owner, English baronet Sir Humphry Wakefield, who says excavations between the castle walls revealed the bones of a child, and this “solved that problem”. “But when I restored that room,” he continues, “my guests kept saying, ‘You must have an electric fault which is a flash of blue on the edge of the door.’ Well, there’s no electric there at all. We must have left a toe bone.” The great hall of Chillingham Castle, a medieval castle in the village of Chillingham in the northern part of Northumberland, England. It dates from 1344.Image Credit: Shutterstock Sir Humphry avows that a priest, an expert in banishing ghosts, arrived at Chillingham only to report that they were so numerous he could not deal with them. Chillingham’s resident ghost hunter Richard Craig reports 50 ghosts on the premises. One, Lady Mary Berkeley, is supposed to haunt the Great Hall, manifesting with a smell of roses and a wafting chill. “Whether you believe in ghosts or not,” explains Janega, “ it’s clear that a natural fear of the supernatural has haunted us through the ages.” And lurking beneath these tales often lies a window into society’s changing norms and values. To figure out what makes a society tick, it often helps to look at what makes them frightened. Sign up to watch

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