A Taste of Freedom in Post-War Europe
After my father died in August 2000, we went through his things, of course. One of the items he held onto was an article from a 1946 issue of Newsweek, Racial: Maedchen and Negro, about black soldiers...
View ArticleClaudette Colvin
Claudette gave all of us moral courage. If she had not done what she did, I am not sure that we would have been able to mount the support for Mrs. Parks. –Fred Gray, Alabama civil rights attorney When...
View Article“Mockingbird” Thoughts
The production of To Kill A Mockingbird at Capital Rep is excellent. I saw it a couple weeks ago with my wife as part of my birthday present. I don’t want to review it as such – Greg Haymes did a good...
View ArticleGay marriage and Loving v. Virginia
"That's what Loving [v. Virginia], and loving [each other], are all about."
View ArticleH. Carl McCall featured speaker at MLK celebration
Carl McCall is quite worthy to be the MLK speaker.
View ArticleGingrich disingenuous in his criticism of Obama re Rayvon Martin
I certainly got "The Talk". Or more correctly, my sisters and I got a series of messages, spoken and unspoken, about the way to speak, how to address authority figures such as the police, where to be...
View ArticleWho was the audience for Memphis (besides Paul Tonko)?
Sitting three rows in front of me was Congressman Paul Tonko.
View ArticleJournalism, by Joe Sacco – a review
Cartoonist/war correspondent Joe Sacco’s new book, JOURNALISM (Metropolitan Books; on sale June 22, 2012) is doing an interesting thing, addressing wars and other conflicts in recent human experience...
View ArticleObviously, we WERE a Christian nation. Ask a Native American.
"The justices used the discredited Christian Doctrine of Discovery – the 15th century European Christian claim that the first nation to 'discover' land that was not populated by Christians could...
View ArticleRosa Parks was a troublemaker – I mean that in a GOOD way
Monday, February 4, 2013 would have been Rosa Parks' 100th birthday. In honor of that, the Postal Service is offering a Parks FOREVER stamp.
View ArticleExcept for the race, this narrative sounds VERY familiar
If we're ever going to have that "dialogue on race" I keep hearing about, this might be a good place to start.
View ArticleKnocking at Midnight: Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the terrible midnight of war men have knocked on the door of the church to ask for the bread of peace, but the church has often disappointed them.
View ArticleGood news from bad #2
I’m going to try again to show how bad news can be seen as good news. The first is a historical piece in honor of the day. The bad news: After [Martin Luther] King’s house was bombed in 1956, the...
View ArticleTraveling While Black
"The 15,000 copies Green eventually printed each year were sold as a marketing tool not just to black-owned businesses but to the white marketplace, implying that it made good economic sense to take...
View Article45 years ago: my first time in a courtroom
I wrote a really angry note to the judge, but I had no intention of actually mailing it.
View ArticleThe Ghetto Chopper T-shirt thing
Was the altered Price Chopper logo protected speech, as a trademark parody?
View ArticleRace, bias and fear of death in policing, by Bradley Russell
The trend of citizens being killed by policehas been steadily climbing for the past two decades.
View Article50th anniversary of SELMA: see the movie January 6, support the Underground...
Join with other supporters of the Underground Railroad History Project for the benefit Special Advance Screening of SELMA, scheduled for Tuesday, January 6, 2015.
View ArticleUnknown heroes: Harriet Elizabeth Brown
Harriet Elizabeth Brown (February 10, 1907 — January 1, 2009) is a member of the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame.
View ArticleThe song Strange Fruit
My near-relative Arnold linked to several versions of Strange Fruit, including one by Billie Holiday,
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