Bobby DeLaughter Going To Prison
Bobby DeLaughter, a Mississippi civil rights icon who reopened old cases from the 1960s, is going to prison. DeLaughter is famous for securing the conviction […]
Race Relations
A Vast Transformation
In The New York Times, an AP article claims there was a vast transformation of racial attitudes last year. I haven’t seen any evidence of […]
A Christmas Thought
I’m currently reading Thomas Wood’s Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815. It is part of the new Oxford History of the […]
Review: Precious
An illiterate and morbidly obese 16 year old Black girl scrambles out of KFC with a stolen bucket of fried chicken, then races to the […]
Review: Good Hair
Even the most oppressive tyrannies have their jesters. Comedians, particularly Black ones, are about the only people free to draw attention to what the rest […]