If you’re following me on Twitter or Tumblr, you know that I’ve been heavily preoccupied with the situation in Wisconsin. So much is at stake for Wisconsin and the country, and the labor movement legacy runs deep in my veins. But I’d like everyone to take their eyes off Wisconsin for long enough to take [...]
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A Century of Living
Last winter I drove to Providence, RI full of trepidation and sadness. My incredible Aunt Esther, my maternal grandfather’s sister, had pneumonia. I was going to see her to make sure I had the chance to say goodbye. To everyone’s, including her own, surprise, she pulled through. “I saw the pearly gates—and they shut!” she [...]
MA Voters: Vote No on Question 1
If you are in Massachusetts, please vote NO on Question 1 this Tuesday. Question 1 is a dangerous, binding proposal to repeal the state income tax, effectively cutting the state budget by $12 billion or almost 40%. http://votenoquestion1.com/
The Greatest Social Experiment in America
The week before I was going to head to New Orleans for this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference one of my twitter friends who was also going to NTC pointed to Eboo Patel’s Washington Post blog post about post-Katrina recovery in New Orleans. Patel catalogs the devastation pretty well: My friend Alycia drove me through the [...]
Elle, PhD is Waiting in Louisiana
Elle, PhD is has ventured to answer Langston’s still prescient question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” If you know about small communities in the South, you know that Jena is not an aberration of racial progress but rather a manifestation of festering tensions that have never gone away. What’s amazing about Elle’s blog post [...]
Young Historians
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer A documentary by Ali Castellanos and Allie Molen [youtube]xKXoXwYpzmU[/youtube] From Bakersfield.com: Fruitvale Jr. High seventh-graders Ali Castellanos and Allie Molen recently won first place for the state of California in the Free Expression in a Free [...]
American Woman
Black students ordered to give up seats to whites August 24, 2006 COUSHATTA — Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children. . . . [Superintendent Kay] Easley would not comment much [...]
How Much Destruction of History is OK with You?
By Jan Hillegas Appointed members of the State Records Committee (SRC) and the Local Government Records Committee (LGRC) regulate “retention periods” for Mississippi’s public records. Some agency records are “scheduled” for permanent preservation in agencies’ offices or the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Some are approved for “disposal” after specified time periods. Pressures for [...]
Honest Appraisal
1 “In the 1960s, my husband helped the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission de-fund the pioneer Head Start programs in our state,” said Courtney Tannehill, the widow of former Neshoba Democrat editor Jack Tannehill, “and he worked to promote the Commission’s segregationist agenda to Mississippi industrialists.” “I am here today to acknowledge the truth about my husband’s [...]
“Land of The Free and Home of The Brave?”
by MarshaRose July 4, 2006 The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. Francis Scott Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, wrote the lyrics in 1814 after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. It became well known [...]
“Another SNCC warrior has died.”
Those were the first words from Scott B. Smith, Jr when he reached me on the phone earlier this afternoon. He wanted to inform me and all who knew her that Linda Dehnad, his wife, died this morning of undetermined causes at age 69. Linda went to Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, AL last night because [...]
Four Black Students Suffer From Another Katrina Race-Related Injustice
Hattiesburg, MS (BlackNews.com) – William Carey College, a predominantly white Southern Baptist private school, has recently wrongfully expelled four black students for using an electric generator during the Presidentially-declared disaster. Immediately following Katrina, several students of the college were stranded due to road blockage, gas shortage, or distance from their homes. A student went into [...]
Equality in Education – Day of Action
[If you are in the Boston area and are free tomorrow afternoon, come support this action. --BG] Join us as we gather 400 supporters to represent the number of Massachusetts high school graduates every year who are denied access to higher education. Let’s show the legislature that the everyone deserves the right to an education. [...]
New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again!
By Bill Quigley They are doing it again! My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We saw people floating dead in the water. We watched people die waiting for evacuation to places with food, water, and electricity. We were rescued by boat and [...]
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