Civil Rights Frontier: NZ River Given Human Rights
The latest frontier of civil rights is to give human rights to rivers and other non-human things. The New Zealand Parliament relented to pressure from […]
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Ain’t that America: Tubman to replace Jackson?
The latest manifestation of the never ending March of Progress in the United States is a movement to replace President Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet […]
Northern Fair Employment Practice Laws
American North Until I read this, I had been disappointed that Thomas J. Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty was ignoring the passage of civil rights […]
Obama’s America: DC Metro Robbery
District of Corruption H/T Colin Flaherty This is the society we are seceding from: Obama’s America. Note: I can’t help but observe that it was […]
Rodney King Arrested For DUI
California BRA’s most famous motorist is back in the news: Rodney King was taken into custody this afternoon in Riverside County and charged with another […]
Review: Dividing Lines (Montgomery)
Alabama While I was out of town this weekend, I picked up J. Mills Thornton III’s Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil […]
Heir Property: Al Sharpton’s Black Nationalism
Eufaula, Alabama A video has surfaced of the Rev. Al Sharpton speaking in my hometown on behalf of Johnny Ford, a black Democratic candidate, back […]
The R.E.A.L. Tragedy
A response to Jeffrey Imm and R.E.A.L. Growing up in the 1990s, I found myself pondering all sorts of mysteries as a teenager: why did […]
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 […]
Remembering Little Rock
In The Washington Post, Kevin Boyle has a review of Carlotta Walls LaNier’s memoir of the Little Rock 9, the small group of negro students […]
Ted Kennedy, RIP
Hurrah! The awful SOB is finally gone. Just heard the news. I’m going to take a pause from my Churchill project to celebrate and savor […]