This is the grave of Sam Jones. Born in 1847 in Oak Bowery, Alabama, Jones grew up fairly well off, the son of a lawyer and businessman. His mom died in 1855 and then family moved to his father's home town of Cartersville, Georgia. The...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Freddie Gray. Born in 1989 in Baltimore, Gray grew up hard in the streets of that rough city. He was the son of a single.
Keep it to sports. As always, this is the top 10 games of the week based on the ranking of teams from 1-134 at The Athletic, in order of when.
Michael Kazin always has good things to say and one of the things he notes here is that not only is it necessary to rebuild unions to rebuild the Democratic Party's attraction to working class voters, but that it's a bit rich to say that...
When you've been through as many right-wing attacks as I have, you need to keep track of what people are saying about you online. So I have to do the.
This is the grave of Charles Senter. There's not that much out there really on this guy, but one can extrapolate a few things. He was born in 1845 was.
This is pretty big news, considering that Walmart is both a huge employer globally and has resisted unions to such a shocking extent. Eight hundred workers near Toronto have won the first Walmart warehouse union in Canada or the U.S. “Honestly I was pretty nervous...
This is the grave of Don Knotts. One of the all time greats, Knotts was born Jesse Donald Knotts in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1924. He had a real rough.
This fascinating 1943 film, surprisingly out of MGM, is a great 10 minute introduction in the midcentury American art scene. It focuses on a few painters, some of which don't.
This is the grave of Charles McLean Andrews. Born in 1863 in Weathersfield, Connecticut, Andrews grew up the son of a Catholic Apostolic minister. I admit I had to look that one up; turns out to be just another Protestant splinter group. Anyway, Andrews was...
This 1938 animation is technically an advertisement for a toothpaste company, but it's not like tooth care comes up more than a couple of times in this 9 1/2 minutes..
I am glad this happened: The estate of Leonard Cohen is suing Trump over his hijacking of Hallelujah. That is a sentence I never in a million years could have.