This is the grave of Willie Dixon. Born in 1915 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Dixon grew up very poor. He was one of 14 children in the family. He got into music very young. By the time he was 7, he was following the pianist Little...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Raymond Odierno. Born in 1954 in Rockaway, New Jersey, Odierno grew up in an Italian American family in that very Italian American state. He stayed.
I think this is probably right about young folks. The thing we have to remember is that we are old. When we were 23, our memories only went back a.
Trump is horrible, but if you are going to become a dictator, ordering the end of the penny is at least one of the things I'd do if I was a dictator. Now if he'd just ban the Andy Reid "Bundlerooski" commercial, we might be...
From any reasonable political perspective, Donald Trump would embrace the masses of Venezuelan migrants to the United States that have helped turn Florida to the far right. After all, they.
This is the grave of W.C. Handy. Born in 1873 in Florence, Alabama, William Christopher Handy grew up in the poor but respectable Black community there. His father was a.
I wasn't sure if I wanted to revisit one of my all-time favorite films, Elio Petri's 1970 classic Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion in the age of Trump. But I am glad I did. If you haven't seen this, you really should, as it's...
Not the top sports story of the day, but the great Hubie Brown is broadcasting his last NBA game today. He's 91 years old. In recent years, he's still sounded.
It's not that I don't accept the idea of Black Republicans. It's that Black Republicans so often don't just embrace part of what it means to be a Republican--they embrace.
Trump's announcement to cap NIH (and I am sure NSF soon) overhead expenditures at 15% of grants is a shot in the face to higher education around the nation. Whatever you want to say about the state of higher education--and I assure you that there...
Naturally, the United States having its most openly racist presidency since Woodrow Wilson is creating joy among the best people in the world. For decades, some members of the white.
This is the grave of John Mason. Born in 1600 in Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire, England, we first pick Mason up in the historical record in 1624, when he enrolled in the.