Justice At Last For Recy Taylor? (w/Updates)
• March 21, 2011 • Comments Off on Justice At Last For Recy Taylor? (w/Updates)Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Domestic Terrorism, Education, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Recy Taylor, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "At the Dark at the End of the Street", Abbeville Alabama, African American, African Americans, Alabama, Apology, Black Women, Blacks, Danielle McGuire, Grand Jury, Henry County, Jim Crow laws, Journal of American History, Lynching, Marriage, Montgomery Bus Boycott, PTSD, Racism, Rape, Recy Taylor, Rep. Dexter Grimsley, Robert Corbitt, Rosa Parks, The Civil Rights Movement, The Forties, The South, The Women's Movement, United States, White Supremacy
“This Is What Happens When YOU DON’T VOTE,” Wisconsin
• March 1, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Bailouts, Budget Cuts, Class, Discrimination, Education, Homelessness, Joblessness, Labor History, Labor Relations, Obama Administration, People of Color, The Economy, The Tea Party Movement, Unions/Union Busting, Wisconsin
Tags: Anti-Civil Rights, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Labor, Barack Obama, Class Warfare, Education, Faux Noise, Fox News, GOP, Governor Scott Walker, Governor Walker, Immigrants, Jeff Foxworthy, Lower Middle Class, Madison WI, Mayor Tom Barrett, Michelle Obama, Middle-Class, Mississippi, People of Color, Public Sector Unions, Republican, Republicans, Russ Feingold, Scott Walker, Status Quo, The Koch Brothers, The Midwest, The Ministry of Propaganda, The South, The Tea Party, Tom Barrett, Union Busting, Unions, United States, Unreconstructed, Voting, Wisconsin
Black Bluegrass Music: The Carolina Chocolate Drops, “Genuine Negro Jig”
• December 5, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cultural History, Education, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Love, Memoir, Music, Music Videos, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, Television, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Women
Tags: "Bonnie and Clyde", "Cornbread and Butterbeans", "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", "Hit 'Em Up Style", "Tain't Nothin' to Me", "The Beverly Hillbillies", African Americans, Antagonism, Apollo Theater, Asleep at the Wheel, Autoharp, Black Banjo: Then and Now, Black Women, Blacks, Blu Cantrell, Bluegrass, Broadway Musical, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Country Music, CW, Dolly Parton, Dom Flemons, Fiddler, Flatt and Scruggs, Genuine Negro Jig, Gospel Choir, Guitars, Hammer Dulcimers, Hank Williams, Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!), Jefferson Airplane, Joe Thompson, Johnny Cash, Jugs, Justin Robinson, k.d. lang, KSOL, Lesbians, Lower Class, Music, Nasal Twang, Opera, Papa John Creach, Patsy Cline, People of Color, Poet, Queen Latifah, Racism, Rhiannon Giddens, Slide Guitars, Something Else, Southern Whites, Telluride CO, The Apollo Theater, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Coasters, The Eighties, The Seventies, The South, Tom Waits, Willie Nelson
So Whatever Happened to Ty’Sheoma Bethea and Her School in South Carolina?
• January 31, 2010 • Comments Off on So Whatever Happened to Ty’Sheoma Bethea and Her School in South Carolina?Posted in American Politics, Black People, Class, Education, Health, Joblessness, Obama Administration, Race, Sick Building Syndrome/Dilapidated Buildings, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Stimulus Bill, Ty'Sheoma Bethea, Women
Tags: Atlanta GA, Charles "Bud" Ferillo, Department of Agriculture, Dillon County, Dillon S.C., Governor Mark Sanford, J.V. Martin Middle School, Mayor Todd Davis, Superintendent Ray Rogers, The Corridor of Shame, The South, Ty'Sheoma Bethea
At Last Night’s Vigil for Shaniya Davis
• November 17, 2009 • Comments Off on At Last Night’s Vigil for Shaniya DavisPosted in Black People, Class, Crime, Domestic Violence, Health, History, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, People of Color, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Respect", Biracial, Biracials, Bradley Lockhart, Daughter, Daughters, Family, Grief, Honorary Brother, Nancy Grace, Paying Respects, Shaniya Davis, Shaniya Nicole Davis, Sorrow, The Associated Press, The South, Vigil, White Brother, White People
