On April 17, 1941, two New York bus companies and the National Negro Congress came to an agreement to end the NNC's boycott of city’s bus companies that had started a few weeks earlier over the refusal of the city to hire Black drivers. This...
Author: Erik Loomis
Playoffs starting, time for more NBA open threads. And yes, this is only about sports, keep your damn politics out of them. And no one cares about your observations about.
Reading about putting together a group of jurors and nearly everyone being disqualified for having political opinions only means one thing--the people deciding the fate of Donald Trump are going.
It should not surprise you that a lot of the libertarian douchebros who run weed dealerships are horrible employers. Luckily, at least on the west coast, a lot of those workers have organized with the United Food and Commercial Workers. They need that representation and...
I fully support Rachel Cohen's ideas here about turning our many abandoned malls into housing. Amy Casciani, a longtime real estate developer whose corporation built housing across seven states, watched.
Ana Raquel Minian is one of our finest historians of immigration. I strongly recommend her book Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. She has a powerful Times op-ed.
This is the grave of Albert Burleson. Born in 1863 in San Marcos, Texas, Burleson grew up rich in the aftermath of the Civil War. His father had owned a big plantation with plenty of slaves and had been a Confederate officer. The family managed...
Hi all, Steve's family contacted me to thank me for the post remembering and honoring him. They are doing a fundraiser for a cause for which Steve believed very deeply.
This is the grave of Jim Thorpe. Born in 1887 near Prague, Oklahoma, Thorpe grew up on the Sac and Fox Nation on what was once Indian Territory (basically the.
This is the grave of Lester Flatt. Born in 1914 in Duncan's Chapel, Tennessee, Flatt grew up around music. He learned the banjo, the mandolin and the guitar at the very time that people such as Bill Monroe were inventing bluegrass music and connecting it...
This is the grave of Lawrence Payton. Born in 1938, Payton got involved in the robust Detroit music scene as a kid. In 1953, he and some friends--Abdul Fakir, Levi.
There's only one way to celebrate this day. Here's 10+ minutes of Norm Macdonald shitting on OJ Simpson pic.twitter.com/bEEhNozhp2 — Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) April 11, 2024