I am not saying Vincent was a saint as baseball commissioner, but Vincent absolutely loved the game of baseball and wanted to see it grow and the owners fired him for not backing them on their desired labor stoppage. Then the owners got what they...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Dinah Washington. Born in 1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Ruth Lee Jones grew up in Chicago. Her family was part of the Great Migration, getting out.
Detail showing the allegorical figure representing Independence (center) flanked by Miguel Hidalgo (left) and general Agustín Iturbide (right). Anonymous, Allegory of Independence, 1834 (Museo Histórico Curato de Dolores, Guanajato, INAH) When.
This is the grave of Thomas Cobb. Born in 1823 in Jefferson County, Georgia, Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, or T.R.R. Cobb as he was know in his writings, was very much the child of the slaveholding elite South. His older brother was Howell Cobb, Speaker...
This is the grave of Peter Dominick. Born in 1915 in Stamford, Connecticut, Dominick grew up in elite east coast world, went to all the right prep schools, then of.
Marianne Faithfull at the Women's World Awards 2009 in Vienna, Austria Absolute stone cold legend. Also, she sang the best version of "Working Class Hero" ever recorded, which wasn't something.
This is the grave of Janet Gaynor. Born in 1906 in Philadelphia, Laura Gainor grew up around the theater business. Her father was a painter for theater productions in the area. He taught his daughter the basics to get on stage--singing, dancing, acrobatics. He was...
On January 29, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act. This narrow but important bill overturned Sam Alito's "logic" in deciding that women couldn't sue for pay discrimination.
Tomorrow is my birthday (51, wtf?) and every year around now, I spend like a month or so watching a bunch of my favorite movies. I really need it right.
I do. And McSweeney's sure provided me one with "How We Restored Our New York City Loft to an Authentic Nineteenth-Century Sweatshop." This is gold: From the moment my husband Jon and I saw the sun-drenched loft on Mercer, we knew two things: We absolutely...
Sean O'Brien must be so excited today! Donald Trump is forcing out top leaders of the US labor board, ushering in a swift reboot of workplace law enforcement while testing the limits.
Donald Trump's stupidity helps one nation and one nation only: China. One thing I noticed in Mexico in my recently completed two months there was the sheer number of Chinese.