I went back to one of my all-time favorites, Nicholas Ray's 1951 film On Dangerous Ground. It's not a perfect film by any means. But in the first half-hour, Robert Ryan gives one of the great bad cop performances of all time. The funny thing...
Author: Erik Loomis
I was thinking more about the death of Charles Person, the youngest Freedom Rider, who we talked about a bit yesterday. People in comments were of course rightfully respectful. But.
Few know more about the internal politics of the American labor movement than Harold Meyerson and he is skeptical that it matters much that SEIU has returned to the AFL-CIO,.
Of course..... Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has voiced strong opposition to removing the names of Confederate generals from US military bases, repeatedly saying the names should be changed back. Hegseth, a National Guard veteran and longtime Fox News host,...
This is the grave of Billy Davis, though very hard to read because of the interaction between the rain and that smooth black stone. Also, I seem to have deleted.
We started 2025 in this series with Radu Jude's Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, a brilliant, if messy, satire of modern Romania through the eyes of a teacher whose.
As we lose our civil rights leaders, we need to note them. Charles Person was not the most famous of them because he made decisions to live a pretty normal life after his initial activism with the Freedom Riders. That's exactly what activism should allow...
White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller (R) joins Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to discuss U.S. immigration policy at the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S..
From Seattle: Councilmember Cathy Moore came out swinging against the extremely modest, geographically limited density increases Mayor Bruce Harrell proposed in his comprehensive plan update on Monday, taking aim at straw “urbanists” who,.
This is the grave of William Hulbert. Born in Burlington Flats, New York in 1832, Hulbert grew up in Chicago. His family moved to the new city on Lake Michigan in 1834 and he lived there the rest of his life, outside of going to...
Last night, I watched Amalie Rothschild's 1972 documentary It Happens to Us, which is a series of interviews with women who underwent illegal abortions. After its release, Rothschild put a.
I don't often read scholarly music books, but I just finished B. Brian Foster's, 2020 book, I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life. Foster.