Pandemic – Marble League 2020 Update – Photo O’ Day 152

1955 – Black WWII veteran Lamar Smith is shot and killed in front of the Brookhaven, Mississippi, courthouse for urging … More

Pandemic Photo O’ Day 151 – PLUS: My Experience of Enumerating for Census 2020

2017 – White nationalists protest removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia; the next day a protester drives a … More

1930 – Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith are lynched in Marion, Indiana; 16 year-old James Cameron survives the attack and … More

1944 – In Philadelphia, PA, 6000 white transit employees strike after eight black men begin training as motormen on streetcars, … More

1919 – After a black teenager is killed for drifting into a ‘white’ section of Lake Michigan, black protests in … More

1967 – Detroit Uprising ends: sparked by complaints about police brutality and racial inequality.. It left more than 1100 people … More

Friday! Just one more of these in July after this current one. ########## Here’s the excellent sources that I feature … More

It’s Tuesday during a tense week in which deeply troubling things are happening in Portland, OR. A must read article … More

2016 – Days after shooting black therapist Charles Kinsey and handcuffing him as he lay bleeding on the ground, police … More

It’s the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. And here’s another song by The Sundays: Here’s the excellent sources that I … More

1919 – After a black man accused of trying to rape a white woman is released, white mobs in Washington … More

2001 – Harvard University Civil Rights Project releases study finding that schools were more segregated in 2000 than they were … More

“If you have ever watched power crumble, you know it happens very suddenly. One day a wall is up and … More

1954 – U.S. Border Patrol begins ‘Operation Wetback,’ in which agents deport more than one million people to Mexico and … More

NOTE: I’m going to start including this countdown image as well b/c the gap between Election Day and 20 January … More

2013 – Center for Investigative Reporting breaks story this week that the State of California improperly sterilized nearly 150 incarcerated … More

It’s 07/07 and another Tuesday and another song about Tuesdays: ++++++++++++ Here’s the excellent sources that I feature each day … More

I missed posting this yesterday, but I’m back at it today, on the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. And on … More

2016 – Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers shoot and kill Alton Sterling, a 37 year-old black man while he is … More

1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats “Great White Hope Jim Jeffries in what is called the fight of the … More