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 [...]
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
It’s Official: Jerry Mitchell is a (MacArthur) Genius
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 21. Sep, 2009 in breaking news, civil rights movement, mississippi, neshoba murders, race and racism
Congratulations to Jerry Mitchell! A papermaker dedicated to preserving traditional Western and Japanese techniques; a scientist developing theories of global climate change; and a journalist who helps uncover details of unsolved murders from the civil rights era are among the 24 recipients of the $500,000 “genius awards,” to be announced on Tuesday by the John [...]
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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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