SCHOOL IS CHANGING SOME OF THE WORDS OF ITS ALMA MATER IT NO LONGER WILL INCLUDE THE WORDS DIXIELAND PRINCIPAL. JASON WARREN SAID A SMALL GROUP OF ALUMNI HAD APPROACHED HIM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA)- Greenville high school is replacing the lyrics “Dixie Land” in their alma mater, after a committee decided it was racially divisive. Written in 1921, Greenville High School ...

After more than 100 years, Greenville High students and alumni will no longer sing of their love for the school in "Dixie Land" The school has decided to remove "Dixie Land" from its Alma Mater, ...

The history of Dixie is as messy as it is long: a southern folk song that was claimed to be written by an Ohioan, as well as a favorite tune of Abraham Lincoln that was later claimed as a spoil of war ...

Bob Dylan sang “Dixie” as a warm-up. The tune appeared on the soundtrack of a forgotten movie. Dylan’s recording of Dixie” is wrong on so many levels. Bob Dylan covered “Dixie,” a song with a horribly ...

Arab, Ala. – The fight over Confederate symbolism has landed in an Alabama town where education leaders have banned the high school marching band from playing “Dixie” as the fight song. Dozens of ...

It was once a catchall word for the South. There are countless songs about it. Streets still carry the name, as do restaurants and grocery stores. But Dixie has also been a problematic label, carrying ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Court of Appeals has thrown out a black man’s sex crime convictions, saying the prosecutor interjected race in closing arguments by quoting lyrics from the Confederate ...