1989 – White mob in Bensonhurst, New York, murders black teenager Yusef Hawkins for visiting a white girl. August 23rd…
Pandemic Note and Photo O’ Day 161
1905 – White people riot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after Charles Miller, a black man enters a public restaurant. August 22nd…
READING! “My Paper.li” for Friday, August 21st
Happy Friday! It’s my last weekday before I return to teaching on Monday with a week of in-service to prepare…
READING: “My Paper.li” for Thursday, August 20th
As I mentioned yesterday, my schedule is getting busier as the start of teaching approaches and I’m trying to work…
Pandemic Note and Photo O’ Day 159
1619 – Dutch ships lands in Jamestown, Virginia, carrying the first enslaved people to what would become the United States.…
READING! “My Paper.li” for Wednesday, August 19th
My schedule is getting busier as the start of teaching approaches and I’m trying to work as many hours with…
READING! “My Paper.li” for Monday, August 17th
My goodness, it’s been a few days since I’ve posted this feature. As I mentioned previously, I’m enumerating for Census…
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…
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…
READING! “My Paper.li” for Wednesday, August 12th
As I mentioned in Monday’s “My Paper.li” post, I’m changing how I do this week-daily feature. So here goes today’s……
READING! “My Paper.li” for Tuesday, August 11th
As I mentioned in yesterday’s “My Paper.li” post, I’m changing how I do this week-daily feature. So here goes today’s……
READING! “My Paper.li” for Monday, August 10th
The times are a changin’ as I am getting back to work. These last days of summer I’m working as…
Pandemic Article and Photos O’ Day 149
1988 – More than 45 years after internment of Japanese Americans began, the U.S. government authorizes reparations payments to the…
Pandemic – Marble League 2020 Update – Photo O’ Day 148
2014 – Eight days after graduating from high school, black teenager Michael Brown is shot and killed by a white…
READING! “My Paper.li” for Friday, August 7th
Back again with this feature after a Thursday that was too busy to post “My Paper.li” link and stories yesterday.…
Pandemic Photos O’ Day 146
1930 – Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith are lynched in Marion, Indiana; 16 year-old James Cameron survives the attack and…
Pandemic Video and Photos O’ Day 145
1965 – More than a century after black Americans are granted voting rights, the federal Voting Rights Act is enacted…
READING! “My Paper.li” for Wednesday, August 5th
Happy Hump Day! As I first mentioned last week, I’m now starting each day’s “My Paper.li” post with a quote…
Pandemic Photo O’ Day 144
2014 – Black workers at Memphis, Tennessee, cotton gin file discrimination lawsuit after white supervisor uses racial slurs and threatens…
READING! “My Paper.li” for Tuesday, August 4th
As I mentioned last week, I’m now starting each day’s “My Paper.li” post with a quote from Franciscan Father Richard…