This is the grave of Ernest May, as well as various other professors associated with Harvard. Born in 1928 in Fort Worth, Texas, May went to UCLA for college, graduating with his B.A. in 1948 and his
Under Trump, ICE became a catch all agency for intimidation of people of color and the poor. A senior political appointee from the Trump administration still employed at a federal safety agency invest
This is the grave of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Born into the Jewish elite of New York in 1891, Morgenthau grew up well-connected. His father was a major financier and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. He
Alexis Pauline Gumbs has a new book out called Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. There’s an excerpt out in the Boston Review and I have to say it is a striking read. Rather,
Usually, economic declines lead to an increase in people entering colleges and universities, whether a working class person going to community college to gain a new skill or certificate or recently gr
Last night, I got back in touch with an old friend, Tod Browning’s 1927 film The Unknown. I love this film so much. Joan Crawford, in one of her first major roles, plays the daughter of a gypsy
People tend to get upset when I talk about how science is socially constructed and produces racist results when scientists who live in a racist society and don’t try to fight that in their scien
Anyone who thought Republicans would disavow Trump once he was gone live in a fantasy world that does not exist anywhere near the actual reality of America. But Republicans pushing the censure resolut