Friday on Political Rewind: The Cobb County School Board has waded into the contentious fight against the teaching of so-called critical race theory. A divided board yesterday outlawed the concept. Meanwhile, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit calling for Major League Baseball to return the All-Star Game to Cobb County.

During a childhood spent in Alexandria, Va., and Walton County, Ga., author Ty Seidule writes, he lived in a bubble, unaware of the dark history of the horrific treatment of Black communities. He tells the riveting story of his coming to terms with U.S. history in a new book, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause.

The whale has not been seen for days, lessening the chances scientists can find and disentangle it.

First, the fate of the police department in the small town of Varnell in Whitfield County is suddenly uncertain. Earlier this month, the city council...