This is the grave of Jack Miller. Born in 1916 in Chicago, Miller grew up there. But at the age of 16, his family moved to Sioux City, Iowa. He was a rich kid. He went to a Catholic school in England for awhile, then...
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This is the grave of Kate Warne. Born around 1833 in Erin, New York, we know almost nothing of Warne's youth. She grew up poor, married young, and was widowed.
I was never the biggest Lynch fan in the world, but he's obviously a gigantic figure in the history of film and I am sure many of you will have.
The ways in which neoliberals have undermined schools in recent decades is just so damaging. The focus on testing, the decline in recess and art, and the state of lunch..
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.
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 union activists. This disgusting action helped spur the ILG to move toward working with immigrant...
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.
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, a position I happen to mostly agree with. But what was the Change to Win...
Of course..... Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump鈥檚 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.