This is the grave of Jelly Roll Morton. Perhaps born in 1890 in New Orleans, Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe grew up in the mixed race community of that city, which was still quite large and different than the rest of the South in so many ways,...
Author: Erik Loomis
LOL, GFY Politico With the blockbuster cross-examination of Michael Cohen set to conclude early next week, we’re likely left only with closing statements and jury deliberation. But what’s been recounted.
lol Arizona’s Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes on Friday announced that Rudy Giuliani had been served with the notice of his indictment on charges related to a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
This is the grave of Wilson Lumpkin. Born in 1783 on the Dan River in Virginia, Lumpkin grew up in Georgia, where his parents moved shortly after his birth. His parents did pretty well, owned slaves, and provided a solid education for their son. He...
I am not a historian of the ancient world so I have no real ability to evaluate these claims, but I wanted to highlight this Bulletin of Atomic Scientists piece.
We will continue to do nothing as the world burns. In the first two months of the year, the pipeline company Targa Northern Delaware vented more climate-damaging natural gas from.
Mercedes has engaged in large-scale union busting around the United Auto Workers campaign to unionize its Alabama plant. As the vote wraps up today, international labor solidarity means Mercedes may face consequences back home in Germany. The German government is investigating Mercedes-Benz for union-busting an...
This is the grave of Louis Prima. Born in 1910 in New Orleans, Prima grew up in the large Italian population there, the only real site of serious immigration in.
I can't say that I saw this coming: The Supreme Court rejected a challenge on Thursday to the way the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is funded, one that could have hobbled the.
Baseball has had to adjust so much in recent years. One thing analytics has done is to make the game smarter, but another thing it has done is take a game that already tests athletes in weird ways and then pushed their ligaments and joints...
A Seagull electric vehicle from Chinese automaker BYD for test driving is parked outside a showroom in Beijing, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The tiny, low-priced electric vehicle called the Seagull.
The Conversation asked me to write an article about Biden's labor record and to give it a grade. I gave him an A-, which is as high as I'd give.