Pandemic Day #290 – In a Word: 2020

It”s a while after midnight (yes, I was watching “The Office” and it got late,) so I am going to … More

Pandemic Day #287 – O Christmas Day!

I write after midnight on what is now the day after Christmas. It’s late, so I will keep this short. … More

First of all, some good news today for me and those who share my profession here in Ohio: Ohio teachers … More

I’m a big fan of “year end” lists of various kinds. I find that perusing these gives me quick and … More

During my Christmas Break, I’m going to try to get back to blogging here at the end of each day. … More

1885 – White miners upset about competition for jobs kill 28 Chinese workers in Rock Springs, Wyoming, causing hundreds to … More

1884 – Superintendent denies Mamie Tape, a Chinese American child, admission to public school in San Francisco this week saying … More

1966 – Alabama passes legislation barring school districts from agreeing to desegregate after decision in Brown vs. Board of Education … More

2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates the U.S. Gulf Coast; the subsequent disaster response is criticized for mistreating many severely impacted … More

1955 – Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, white members of the Ku Klux Klan, abduct 14 year old Emmett Till … More

1874 – Mob of 400 masked men on horseback armed with shotguns kidnaps 16 black men from jail in Gibson … More

August 25th – Montgomery, Alabama, home of Robert Graetz, white minister of Trinity Lutheran Church and Montgomery Association board member, … More

1989 – White mob in Bensonhurst, New York, murders black teenager Yusef Hawkins for visiting a white girl. August 23rd … More

1905 – White people riot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after Charles Miller, a black man enters a public restaurant. August 22nd … More

1619 – Dutch ships lands in Jamestown, Virginia, carrying the first enslaved people to what would become the United States. … More

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

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

1988 – More than 45 years after internment of Japanese Americans began, the U.S. government authorizes reparations payments to the … More

2014 – Eight days after graduating from high school, black teenager Michael Brown is shot and killed by a white … More

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