This is the grave of James Greene. Born in 1915 in Springfield, Illinois, Greene joined the Navy in 1933. He wasn't ever in a war, leaving the Navy in 1939. In 1941, he was hired by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, founded in 1933 to...
Author: Erik Loomis
Raven Jackson's excellent 2023 film is a film about memory in the black South. It's more or less about her life, though too discursive to be specific. It's about a.
The NFL owners, only richer than God, are preparing for another round of scab refs. It went great last time! The NFL is laying groundwork for hiring replacement officials this.
Cesar Chavez, the head of the United Farm Workers Union, calls for the resignation of Walter Kintz, the first legal counsel for the state Agriculture Labor Relations Board, in Sacramento, Calif., on Sept. 16, 1975. Chavez's efforts in California culminated in landmark legislation that protected...
This is the grave of Marty Blake. Born in 1927 in Paterson, New Jersey, Blake grew up in a Jewish immigrant household in a family that had migrated from Russia.
This is the grave of Theodore Weld. Born in 1803 in Hampton, Connecticut, Weld came from old Puritan stock and had at least some money, with his father a pretty.
On March 16, 1907, timber workers in Portland went on strike. This was one of the first actions organized by people affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World. The IWW was small, but the American Federation of Labor already saw them as a massive...
This is the grave of William Johnson. Born in 1771 in St. James Goose Creek Parish (quite a name) South Carolina, Johnson didn't grow up rich. His father was a.
I was at the Blazers-Jazz game last night--hot times in NBA action there!--and who should walk by me but Nosferatu himself! Why was the commissioner at this garbage game (which.
On March 14, 1952, United Auto Workers head Walter Reuther started the process to move Local 600 into receivership. This was a key moment in the postwar transition of the UAW into a liberal but very much not leftist union consolidated under Reuther's control and...
I am, of course, furious that Pete Hegseth is bombing Iran's glorious historical sites. But that's not the only time this happens in war. When I was in Cambodia in.
I generally love the films of Kelly Reichardt. Part of that is that she, along with Gus Van Sant, are the great Oregon directors. But that's not really it, even.