This is the grave of Obie Benson. Born in 1936 in Detroit, Benson went to the local schools and became friends with a guy named Lawrence Payton while in high school. They liked to sing together and this was the glory days of doo-wop so...
Author: Erik Loomis
Luka Doncic is a great player. Luka Doncic is also a bum. It's hard to square all of that, but it's also hard to see otherwise given his performance this.
Well now, this is interesting: A Florida court has ordered Chiquita Brands International to pay $38m to the families of eight Colombian men murdered by a paramilitary death squad, after.
The first big heat wave is about to hit the Northeast. I am currently experiencing my own personal early heat, thanks to my wife having a conference in Puerto Vallarta this week, which is bloody hot, even for here. June is I think the hottest...
Rick Perlstein has an excellent piece that I explores something I only learned about relatively recently, Roger Stone's work with Al Sharpton on the latter's 2004 presidential campaign as a.
I said before the Game 1 thread that I thought a healthy Porzingis would make the difference for the Celtics, if he was indeed healthy. Well, it did....for 2 games..
Republicans always respect the law, right? It's all about legality. That must be why Oklahoma has preemptively pardoned the state's entire poultry industry from water pollution laws. Governor Kevin Stitt has now signed into law a measure that gives poultry farmers/companies “immunity” for polluting Oklahoma...
I appreciate what this city councilperson did here: Minneapolis City Council member Katie Cashman privately encouraged chef Ann Kim to voluntarily recognize an employee union at her Uptown restaurant, according to a.
The Logo has left us. Other than West being a great, great player, he came back into the public consciousness with Winning Time, a pretty good if certainly not great.
As one LGM reader texted me after reading the comment threads on the last two immigration posts, a lot of LGM commenters clearly would have supported FDR signing Executive Order 9066, putting the Japanese into concentration camps based on the rationale that a Democrat would...
It's not surprising that the first union contract at an all-EV company would come in the old Lordstown plant, home of one of the most important strikes of the 1970s..
As the South changes, the parts that change the most become easier to organize. That's especially true in Virginia. The last time Democrats in the commonwealth had the trifecta, they.