I appeared on The Takeaway this morning with New York Times reporter Shaila Dewan and Catherine Walker, whose father Clifton was murdered by Klansmen on February 28, 1964. Today’s segment was a follow up to Dewan’s article in yesterday’s Times. //
Archive | August, 2010
Mix of the Week
I’m trying to do one of these each weekend. We’ll see how it goes… For more on Rodriguez, see my Tumblr.
All We Have (Treme)
If you’ve watched the 1st season of Treme then you know: incredible writing and acting in a hard-hitting rendition of post-Katrina life in New Orleans. This edit of clips by here’s luck makes an emotional arc out of the experiences of the main female characters. It is, as here’s luck calls it, a prayer for [...]
The FBI’s Slow Race Against Time
As far as I knew, none of the children of Clifton Walker had ever been contacted by FBI agents regarding the February 28, 1964 racial killing of their father, near Woodville, MS. Still, I thought I should confirm this, so a few nights ago I gave a call to Walker’s second daughter Catherine and asked [...]
Home of the Free, Prison Camp of the Brown
The lawyer was en route but border patrol “didn’t want to wait” so they took her into detention. She allegedly ran a stop sign.
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