Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler. Born in Newport, Kentucky in 1841, Shaler grew up in a well-off slaver family. It might have been northern Kentucky, but Kentucky.
This is the grave of Willie Dixon. Born in 1915 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Dixon grew up very poor. He was one of 14 children in the family. He got into.
I think this is probably right about young folks. The thing we have to remember is that we are old. When we were 23, our memories only went back a.
Trump is horrible, but if you are going to become a dictator, ordering the end of the penny is at least one of the things I'd do if I was.
This is the grave of W.C. Handy. Born in 1873 in Florence, Alabama, William Christopher Handy grew up in the poor but respectable Black community there. His father was a.
I wasn't sure if I wanted to revisit one of my all-time favorite films, Elio Petri's 1970 classic Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion in the age of Trump. But.
It's not that I don't accept the idea of Black Republicans. It's that Black Republicans so often don't just embrace part of what it means to be a Republican--they embrace.
Trump's announcement to cap NIH (and I am sure NSF soon) overhead expenditures at 15% of grants is a shot in the face to higher education around the nation. Whatever.