On September 19, 1935, a Soviet coal miner named Alexey Stakhanov mines 227 tons of coal. His work that day, beatified by the Soviet state as the saint to guide the new worker into the future, became such an ideal that the term Stakhanovite is...
Author: Erik Loomis
As I have stated on occasion, talking about Trump on this site or anywhere on the internet is worthless in creating change. Frankly, the internet has been a disaster for.
This is the grave of Minnie Miñoso. Born in Perico, Cuba, it's only possible that Miñoso was born in 1924 as it says here. Evidence from Cuba suggests 1923 or.
Decades of federal land planning, blown up by Congress in a single day: On the sagebrush plains of eastern Montana, cattle graze alongside mule deer, and pumpjacks rise from coal seams. For nearly a decade, the future of this landscape was hammered out in the...
Who else is not shocked at all that Rand Paul is right there with everyone else on the far right that criticizing the Trump administraiton or whatever they define as.
I can't say I was the biggest Redford fan in the world. I certainly liked him well enough in several roles, but when facing off with Paul Newman, no one.
This is the grave of James Withycombe. Born in 1854 in Tavistock, West Devon, England, Withycombe and his family migrated to Oregon in 1871, buying a farm near Hillsboro, which is today the Portland suburbs, but was rural back then. Though he was nearly grown,...
As we enter the Second Jim Crow, there is no place for Black history in America's stories of itself. Quite literally: The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs.
<> on August 28, 2014 in Washington, DC. It's unusual for leading conservatives to just come out and say openly why they went totally insane--because the Black guy was elected..
Another day, another story about red state voters shooting themselves in their economic face : As House Agriculture Chair G.T. Thompson prepares to introduce legislation aimed at easing the farm labor crisis, farmers in the Pennsylvania Republican’s district are hoping he’s heard their cries that they need...
This is the grave of George Cruikshank. Born in 1792 in London, Cruikshank grew up in a family of caricaturists. Interesting family business. But his father drew cartoons and images.
This is the grave of Manning Marable. Born in Dayton, Ohio in 1950, Marable came out of the Black activist-intellectual class based in that area since the 19th century. His.