Author: Erik Loomis
I'm not sure that I'm quite as pessimistic as labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about the early 21st century South. But he's certainly right about the attempt to reinstitute white supremacy..
All those liberals driving Priuses make big strong tough American white men feel threatened. So they typically have to bully others. In small towns across America, manly men are customizing.
On June 25, 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation, while flawed as almost all progressive legislation must be to pass.
Tuco survived that walk through the desert, but he couldn't live forever. Pretty close though. Eli Wallach has died at the age of 98.
I mostly reject lazy "both parties are the same" rhetoric. But if it fits on one issue, it's education. Obama has long surrounded himself with Rheeists and now that some.
Like Jamelle Bouie, I don't really think Hillary Clinton's stupid statements about wealth are really going to hurt her much in 2016. Perhaps unlike Jamelle, I don't think her continued.
On June 23, 1855, a 19 year old slave woman named Celia murdered her master rather than allow him to rape her. She then attempted to burn his body, nearly.
With the Civil War sesquicentennial and the World War I centennial beginning, the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement's major victories has not received the attention I'd like to.