Following Ash-Lee’s post about Barnes & Noble, we’ve been curious just how widespread the exploitative endcaps are. A commenter on Ann’s Weekly Feminist Reader at feministing said they’ve got the same endcaps in Tallhassee, FL. If you’ve sighted a Barnes & Noble encap like the one Ash-Lee described in her post, leave a comment on [...]
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Update from Ash-Lee on Barnes & Noble
Ash-Lee sent me this update to her original post on Johnson City, TN Barnes & Noble and the exploitative books it is pushing as African American literature. A friend of mine that is currently an employee at Barnes and Noble read this blog (specifically where I write about the store management being ok with taking [...]
The Shock Doctrine
I became aware of Naomi Klein’s work in the first month after Hurricane Katrina, when she had made a remarkable discovery about New Orleans: in neighborhoods that had been declared habitable by Mayor Nagin there were 23, 267 uninhabited apartments that could be rented to evacuees. I said then: If each unit houses three people, [...]
The Bus
By Donnie Williams Because of Rosa Parks and many of the unknown Montgomery residents that were involved in the bus boycott and a lot more, Montgomery is a better place but we need to be better. The Rosa Parks bus, the real one, is in Detroit at the Henry Ford Museum. It used to be [...]
Author Applauds New Possibilities for Solving Civil Rights “Cold Cases”
Regarding this news, Susan Klopfer has put out this press release: September 17, 2005 — Sixties voting rights advocate Birdia Keglar was murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen on her way home to Charleston, Mississippi after meeting with Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in Jackson. Keglar’s January 11, 1966 death and the murders of her best friend [...]
Genius Scientist Discovers His Research May Be Used For Evil, Becomes Pacifist
No, damn it. Albert Einstein was a political radical and anti-racist. When it came to how to handle Einstein’s ashes or his house on Mercer Street, everyone involved meticulously adhered to his wishes. But when it involved his ideas, and especially his concerns about what he called America’s “worst disease,” the fact that Einstein wanted [...]
Book Summary – Susan Orr-Klopfer, Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited
Where Rebels Roost Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited Publisher: M. Susan Orr Klopfer, MBA Publication Date: July 1, 2005 No. Pages: 668 Order/Review sites http://themiddleoftheinternet.com/bookorder.html http://www.lulu.com/content/135246 http://minorjive.typepad.com/hungryblues/2005/07/foreword_for_su.html $29.17 Book $11.25 Download Special Inclusions Nine-page Selected Bibliography/Citations: 73 Books; 3 Dissertations; 47 Articles; 32 Collections, Interviews, Oral Histories. Twenty-pages/ Lists of Dead/References 900+ names and information of [...]
Foreword for Susan Klopfer’s Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited (2005)
Where Rebels Roost… Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited by Susan Klopfer, MBA With Fred Klopfer, Ph.D. and Barry Klopfer, Esq. Foreword by Benjamin T. Greenberg Printed: $29.17 Download: $11.25 (order) June 27, 2005 Following this week’s conviction of Edgar Ray Killen on three charges of manslaughter for the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, [...]
The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo, by Gary May
It was an apropos end to an exciting week when I received Gary May’s email yesterday, announcing the publication of his new book, The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo. I haven’t mentioned this yet, but in addition to traveling to Mississippi for the 41st annual Chaney Goodman [...]
Murders Around Mississippi
Now that Killen has been convicted and sentenced, Susan Klopfer has revamped her blog that focused on the trial to cover, instead, the history of racial murders in Mississippi. Spend fifteen minutes on Murders Around Mississippi and it should be abundantly clear what Rita Bender Schwerner meant when she said: “If this verdict is a [...]
Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Revisited, by Susan Orr-Kolpfer
[I am proud to say I wrote the forward to Susan Klopfer's new book, which becomes available next week. You will see a couple of quotations from the forward, below. Once Susan's book is available to the public, I'll post the forward here. Note, too, that Susan's small book on Emmett Till is available now.--BG] [...]
Edgar Ray Killen Needs Some Company
This morning, Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to sixty years in prison after being found guilty of three counts of manslaughter. Last Sunday, I attended the 41st Annual Chaney Goodman Schwerner Memorial in Neshoba County, Mississippi. This year the memorial was held on the Steele family land, at the site of the former Longdale Community [...]
Background Reading From Susan Klopfer
As anyone who sifts through the neshoba murders posts on this blog will know, the emphasis here at Hungry Blues is not so much Edgar Ray Killen but the big picture, of which Killen is only a small part. For excellent reading with good historical background and a broad understanding of the issues that are [...]
Tulsa Wasn’t The Only One . . .
Up from the comments, Susan Klopfer writes about a little known, late 19th century pogrom against African Americans in Mississippi. I believe most Americans are ignorant of or in denial about the prevalence in our history of this kind of organized, mass racial violence. One reason for our country’s present impotence in dealing with racial [...]
Good Stuff From The Comments
• After I blogged my friend Dana’s memoir piece on her 1999 trip to Auchwitz, she commented to send me over to the website of Peter Cunningham, the photographer whose photo of Dana appears in her article. Peter has spent years photographing musicians and there is a nice link on his site to those pictures. [...]
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