My latest is out on Colorlines. Here’s an excerpt: At 91, Recy Taylor May Finally See Alabama Acknowledge Her 1944 Rape Recy Taylor was abducted and raped at gunpoint by seven white men in Abbeville, Ala., on Sept. 3, 1944. Her attack, one of uncounted numbers on black women throughout the Jim Crow era in [...]
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We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Support for Wisconsin Because Detroit is Burning
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 [...]
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.
Coroner Calls Death of Mississippi Man Homicide, Attributed Solely to Taser
UPDATE 7/28: The Bolivar Commercial has substantial new information the case. Jermaine Williams, a 30-year-old African-American man from Bolivar County, MS, died in police custody on July 23, 2010. Little has been released about the circumstances of his death—except that the local deputy coroner is calling it a homicide by taser. On Saturday, Bolivar County [...]
Arizona Police Officer Says SB 1070 Violates the Constitution
Over at Cure This my Twitter friend los anjalis blogged this video of Phoenix, Arizona police officer Paul Dobson talking about his opposition to SB 1070. “This law is – pure and simple – a racist law,” Dobson says. Thanks to los anjalis for also transcribing important portions of Officer Dobson’s statement: So under SB1070 [...]
US Representative John Lewis Steps Up for GLBT Rights
Many thanks to Pam Spaulding for capturing John Lewis’ speech at Equality Alabama’s gala a couple of weekends ago. John Lewis is an American hero and a powerful speaker; it is fantastic to hear him speaking so strongly on this issue and declaring himself an ally to the GLBT community. John Lewis took batons to [...]
If I Had My Way
You can’t grow up in in the home of a political radical from the 1950s and 60s without hearing Peter, Paul and Mary. I’m very sad to hear of the death of Mary Travis. She raised the roof for freedom and justice her whole career. If there’s a heavenly place where great spirits celebrate together [...]
We Can’t Afford to Wait (MoveOn & R.E.M)
Have you called Congress to say you support health care reform that includes a public option? Even if you have, call again. 202-224-3121
4 Years After Hurricane Katrina
On August 29, 2005, the eye of Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Waveland, Mississippi, and the western side of the storm grazed New Orleans. Five months after the storm, I visited the Mississippi Gulf Coast. According to a National Hurricane Center report on Katrina, “in many locations, most of the buildings along the coast were [...]
Fatherhood (from The Waiting Room)
This video is from a film by my friend Pete Nicks, who is the guy with the camera in my banner image, above. The film, The Waiting Room, is a timely documentary about our health care system, as seen at The Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, CA. THE WAITING ROOM will follow three people [...]
Rocky Mt. Health Care Town Hall Meeting
Vimeo poster Ajamu Dillahunt writes: Southern African American community resists corporate organized rightwing protestors. Above the shouts the community tells its story and why they need health care for all to overcome historic health disparities. (h/t Jared Storey)
Fort Worth Police Turn Stonewall Commemoration into Re-enactment
From Pam Spaulding: Is this what the police in Fort Worth, TX call “Stonewall Commemoration”? A gay club called the Rainbow Lounge opened in the city and Todd Camp, the founder of Q Cinema and former reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, was celebrating his birthday at the club and two Stonewall docs were being [...]
More Arrests on Coal River Valley as Actions Against Mountaintop Removal and Coal Sludge Dams Continue
[Editor's note: two of my friends are among those arrested in these actions to stop the these dangerous mountain top removal operations. ---BG] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 23, 2009 CONTACT: Sludge Watch Collective 304-854-7372 COAL RIVER VALLEY, W.Va.– This morning, eleven activists in two civil disobedience actions were removed by state police. As part of [...]
Peoples Temple and Reverend Jim Jones
By John Dorsey Due, Jr. November 18, 2008 The nation will pause and reflect on the massive “Revolutionary Kool Aid Suicide” of almost a 1000 Americans in their Jonestown refuge in Guyana and the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan, thirty years ago, on November 18, 1978. This could be my final ten year acknowledgment of [...]
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