Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in front of his home by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. Today marks the 50th anniversary of this tragedy.
Author: Erik Loomis
This is a guest post by Jacob Remes, who is assistant professor and mentor at SUNY Empire State College, where he teaches public affairs and history. His book, Disaster Citizenship:.
I've linked to articles before connecting the protection of people from lead poisoning through environmental regulations and drops in crime over the last few decades. Here is a scientific study.
Although I like "the right to work a man to death" better because it was generated by workers themselves, calling right to work "the most dishonest words in American politics" is a pretty good way to describe the double speak behind robbing workers of their...
Media Matters: Over Five Weeks, Network And CNN Sunday Shows Combine For Just Half An Hour Of Economic Coverage. Since May 12, Sunday morning political talk shows on the major.
Given people's intensity over this issue, I'm probably going to be annoyed by the response to this. But while all the NSA stuff and destruction of privacy is in fact.
Ari Berman with an excellent article on John Lewis and how the Supreme Court's likely overturning of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is a national repudiation of what he fought his entire life to achieve. Given the long hostility of American conservatism to...
I've read a few pieces like this one, documenting the sudden spike in home prices and the rush to buy with all-cash purchases. What the linked article does less well.
A good comment on the federal disavowal of the wolf reintroduction program that brought wolves back from the brink of the extinction in the Lower 48: In Idaho, hunters and.
As I mentioned in yesterday's post on the Paterson strike pageant, I was moderating a panel of really first-rate historians on the anniversary of the strike. I am going to write up the panel for another forum pretty soon and will link to it. But...
On June 7, 1913, the supporters of the Industrial Workers of the World led textile worker strike in Paterson, New Jersey held the Paterson Strike Pageant at Madison Square Garden.
The decline of frogs and toads in the face of widespread and complex environmental change is really depressing. But hey, at least bat and honeybee populations are super healthy!