Nobody likes fundraising. It's the worst. You all want good quality content. We want to write good quality content. And yet, here we are, forced to raise funds once a year. We do try to keep it to one day, but not being harassed requires...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is a genuinely astounding document. An hour of interviews with old musicians concluding with them playing the Dr. Pepper theme song. Doc Watson, Muddy Waters, Maybelle Carter, Bill Monroe,.
Tonight's entry is this more than slightly terrifying 1993 Canadian PSA. What's really notable about this, other than the horrifying puppets in your face and of course the potential to.
Let's start with this interview with the great Sonny Rollins, still alive and active at the age of 89, even though he can't play anymore. But he's still politically aware and his mind very sharp. This covers everything from jazz history to George Floyd. I've...
To distract us from all the horrible things in the world, here's a great story on how a Catholic library in Cairo began collecting street-level Islamic religious texts in the.
This is absolutely horrifying and also fits into 500 years of genocide against Native communities in the Americas. A prominent women’s hospital here has separated some Native American women from.
Mt. Rushmore is a racist abomination. The blasting of presidential faces into a South Dakota mountain was an openly racist act of the early twentieth century. This land had been stolen from the Lakota a mere half-century earlier. The early twentieth century was a period...
This is the grave of Marcus Daly. Born in 1841 in County Cavan, Ireland, Daly was the youngest of 11 children in a poor farming family. He came to the.
It's been a busy week for sandwich talk at LGM and across the internet. But have we acknowledged our foremothers and the sandwich-based media of the past? We have not!.
The Actors Circle Ensemble is doing an incredible set of socially distanced plays around social justice issues, followed by a scholar providing commentary on the various movement. Last week, I did the first one, on labor rights and workplace issues. Unfortunately, the plays (which were...
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - JUNE 10: A statue depicting Christopher Columbus is seen with its head removed at Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park on June 10, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. The statue.
Today is the 53th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia, striking down laws that banned interracial marriages. Not only should those "Virginia Are For Lovers" license.