On Monday evening, I got a call from my friend Jesse who had been down at Occupy Boston earlier in the day. Mayor Menino and Boston Police were telling the protestors that they could not stay at the second camp they’d started a block away from the original Dewy Square site, on the Rose Kennedy [...]
Earlier This Week at Occupy Boston
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 14. Oct, 2011 in boston, civil liberties, class and poverty, friends, local politics, massachusetts, photo, photography, slideshow, video
Cold Case Reporting
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 24. Sep, 2011 in alabama, civil rights cold case project, civil rights movement, clifton walker case, family, hungry blues, mississippi, photo, race and racism, southwest ms
I started this blog in 2004 to write about things like this photo of my father and James Baldwin in Birmingham, AL in 1963 at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. In time, however, blogging led to investigative journalism about unpunished lynchings and other violence from the civil rights era. In the summer of [...]
HONK! Photo Exhibit in Davis Square
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 05. Sep, 2011 in boston, Music, photo, photography
I’m honored to again be one of the photographers exhibiting photos of the HONK! Festival at the Inside/Out Gallery, in the windows outside the Davis Square CVS in Somerville, MA. The photos are on display now through the first weekend in October when the 6th Annual HONK! Festival of activist street bands comes to Somerville [...]
47th Annual Mississippi Civil Rights Martyrs Memorial Service, Conference and Caravan
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 18. Jun, 2011 in civil rights movement, friends, mississippi, neshoba murders, photo, race and racism
Today and tomorrow in Neshoba County, MS is the annual memorial for James Chaney, Michael Schewerner, Andrew Goodman, and all civil rights era racial murder victims. I first attended in 2005. It is an important, meaningful event that is also an opportunity to meet and listen to famous Civil Rights Movement veterans and many unsung heroes [...]
Lolita’s Family Photos
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 05. Feb, 2011 in boston, friends, katrina, louisiana, massachusetts, MS Gulf Coast, nola, photo, photography, race and racism, video
Check out this video about my friend Lolita’s quest for her family photographs. (DDFRtv visits Lolita Parker Jr @ Boston from Digital Diaspora Family Reunion on Vimeo.) What the video does not fully explain is that Lolita is herself a professional photographer. Though we’re both from Boston, I met Lolita in Turkey Creek, MS at Derrick [...]
Save the Blacks
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 25. Jan, 2011 in environmental justice, katrina, mississippi, MS Gulf Coast, photo, race and racism, video
This is brilliant coverage of the fight of Turkey Creek, Mississippi African Americans to save their community. Turkey Creek was founded by freed slaves in 1866. Their descendants have been fighting dispossession by developers and environmental racism for years. I interviewed Wyatt Cenac’s guide, Derrick Evans, in January 2006, 6 months after Hurricane Katrina devastated his community with [...]
Why DDoS Attacks for Wikileaks Are Not Civil Disobedience
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 17. Dec, 2010 in civil liberties, civil rights, civil rights movement, friends, photo, race and racism, Weblogs, women and feminism
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust. [...]
The Civil Rights Cold Case Project
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 16. Dec, 2009 in breaking news, civil rights movement, clifton walker case, dee moore case, mississippi, photo, publication, race and racism, southwest ms
I am pleased to announce that The Civil Rights Cold Case Project website is now up and running at http://coldcases.org. My previous blog post, about my most recent trip to Mississippi, was cross posted from the Cold Case Project site. The Civil Rights Cold Case Project brings together the power of investigative reporting, narrative writing, [...]
Picking Up the Trail from a 25-Year-Old Tip
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 16. Dec, 2009 in boston, civil rights movement, clifton walker case, mississippi, photo, race and racism, southwest ms
In October, I was in Mississippi again, following leads in my investigation of the 1964 murder of Clifton Walker, a black man from Woodville, MS. Driving home from the swing shift at the International Paper plant in Natchez, MS, Walker was ambushed by Klansmen, who stopped his car on a deserted road and blew his [...]
A Century of Living
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 08. Oct, 2009 in education, family, jewish, photo, podcast, women and feminism
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 [...]
Redesign
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 02. Nov, 2008 in civil rights movement, election, family, liberal party of new york, nyc politics, Paul Greenberg 101, photo, race and racism, situations and predicaments, southwest ms
You may have noticed that Hungry Blues has changed its look. After more than two and a half years with my heavily modified versions of Scott Wallick’s VeryPlainTxt theme, I’ve been feeling the urge to change up the look of my site. When I came across Lucian E. Marin’s Journalist theme a little over a [...]
Poem
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 04. Dec, 2006 in photo, poetry, women and feminism
[DSCN7989.jpg, originally uploaded by BenTG.] I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane, The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories, The news would pour out of various devices Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen. I would call my friends on other [...]
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Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
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