This is the grave of Duke Slater. Born in 1898 in Normal, Illinois, Fred Slater grew up in a religious household. His father was a Methodist minister. The family had a dog named Duke and for reasons unclear, they started calling Fred Duke too. At...
Author: Erik Loomis
On January 14, 1977, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union lost a union election in Los Angeles after the Immigration and Naturalization Service raided the workplace, deporting many of the.
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.
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 I was also thinking of the absurdly stupid hopelessness so many liberals today have toward...
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.
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 the picture of the headstone itself. As always, professional quality work here! Born in 1932...
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.
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. August 2, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC12A3375CB0 A good reminder that we need immigrants, immigrants,...
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.