My professional reading has taken me to Gena Caponi-Tabery’s 2003 book Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America. It’s literally a history of jumping. An interesti
Very interesting piece by the historian Allison Lange on how the debate around whether can “have it all” goes back to the suffrage movement. While this work is a necessity for most familie
In the era of COVID, we have defined “essential worker” as “someone we don’t mind dying for us, but hey you’re a hero!” Many of those essential workers are poor, ma
This is the grave of Cyrus Field. Born in 1819 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Field grew up the son of a clergyman. They weren’t exactly an elite family but the children were very high achieving
A good bill out of Virginia: Virginia regulators will be able to go inside detention facilities in Farmville and Caroline County if Senator Jennifer Boysko of Herndon gets her way. Her bill making Imm
It’s hard to even talk about what is going on in California right now. The West is just going to burn up and dry out. It’s horrifying. But Leah Stokes at least tries to articulate the hell
Are you aware that the Democratic Party is in fact in disarray because the online convention went so smoothly and didn’t allow Beltway reporters to file their usual stories? The prominence of su
When we talk about organized labor in this country, to the extent that we even do, we so often just stereotype the building trades as filled with conservatives. Maybe we see SEIU as filled with immigr