I was honored to be interviewed by Jerry Mitchell for this article that came out in today’s Clarion Ledger. A day after the FBI asked for the public’s assistance in solving 43 unpunished killings in Mississippi during the civil rights era, researchers say they know of at least 18 more slayings that haven’t been included. [...]
Cold-Case List Omits Many Names
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 15. Feb, 2009 in breaking news, civil rights movement, mississippi, race and racism, southwest ms
Government Homelessness Programs: A MS Gulf Coast Triptych
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 31. Jan, 2008 in breaking news, class and poverty, environmental justice, friends, human rights, katrina, MS Gulf Coast, race and racism, Weblogs
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has approved MS Governor Haley Barbour’s plan to divert $600 of Federal Community Development Block Grant funds from low-income housing recovery to a Port Expansion Plan in Gulfport. In his letter to Gov. Haley Barbour, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that although he’s concerned about using the housing [...]
What Is This You Bring My America?
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 29. Dec, 2007 in breaking news, civil liberties, civil rights, civil rights movement, human rights, immigrants, katrina, nola, politics, race and racism, torture and detention, Weblogs
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty…. Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to [...]
New Convictions Posssible in Neshoba Murders
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 02. Dec, 2007 in breaking news, civil rights movement, neshoba murders, race and racism
Exciting developments in the notorious case of the 1964 murders of the three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. Jerry Mitchell reports in the Clarion Ledger: Authorities should reopen the Klan’s 1964 killings of three civil rights workers because of newly discovered evidence, family members say. “Without a doubt,” said Ben [...]
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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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