This is the grave of Don Baylor. Born in 1949 in Austin, Texas, Baylor grew up in Clarksville, Texas. He was among the first black students to integrate Texas public schools in the early 1960s. He went to high school back in Austin and was...
Author: Erik Loomis
After well over a month, the GM strike is nearing its end, at least it seems. It seems that the UAW was able to win its financial demands, more or.
On October 15, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. This act, like many anti-labor laws, had a veneer of a solution to a real.
Someone in this semicircle of nearly illegible graves is that of Alice Roosevelt. Alice Hathaway Lee was born Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts in 1861. Her father a big time Boston banker and she grew up in the heart of the Boston Brahmins. Her family's neighbors were...
This is the grave of Earl Warren. Born in 1891 in Los Angeles, Warren grew up in Bakersfield, son of a poor family. His father worked on the railroad. But.
On October 12, 1898, a racialized battle over strikebreaking broke out in the southern Illinois coal mining town of Virden, Illinois. The so-called Battle of Virden demonstrates the ways that.
For an actor who was never really successful or a star, Robert Forster sure was in a lot of interesting films. And whatever you make think of Tarantino he's always had a brilliant eye for great and forgotten actors, as he showed with Forster in...
This is the grave of Gilbert Grosvenor. Grosvenor was born in 1875 in Constantinople to teacher parents. His father Edwin was a fairly well-known historian who worked at Robert College.
This is the grave of States Rights Gist. Yes friends, you read that right. This man was named States Rights Gist. See, he was born in 1831 in Union, South.
This is the grave of Josephus Daniels. Born in 1862 in Washington, North Carolina, Daniels grew up without a father. He was killed in the Civil War, but as these things sometimes went, he was a Unionist and was killed by a Confederate sharpshooter as...
U.S Border Patrol agents Mario Fuentes, left, and Marc Gonzales search a destroyed mobile home for survivors in the wake of Hurricane Harvey near Rockport, Texas, Aug. 27, 2017. U.S..
The biggest detriment for me in supporting Bernie Sanders' run is his horrific campaign team. Jeff Weaver is the lefty version of Mark Penn. Many of his top advisers are.