Pandemic Photo O’ Day 172

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

Pandemic Photo O’ Day 171

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

1964 – Bodies of murdered civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman are discovered in a Mississippi … More

1890 – March Cook, a white advocate for black voting rights, is murdered in Jasper County, Mississippi, by white men … More

1910 – White man in Montgomery, Alabama, avoids prosecution after killing black taxi driver, Mitchell Johnson, who had him arrested … More

1839 – Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad seize control and order crew to sail to Africa but arrive in … More

1973 – Two young black girls, Minnie (14) and Mary Alice Reif (12), sue health clinic in Montgomery, Alabama, for … More

What were you doing on Sunday, February 16, 2020? Here’s what The Week thought you should know on that day … More

2013 – This week, Kimberly McCarthy becomes the 500th person executed by the State of Texas since 1972; more than … More

Before reflection on this milestone day, a follow up about yesterday’s photo of the empty seats at POTUS#45’s rally in … More

Quick question – What’s an acrostic poem? Give up? It’s a poem in which the first letter of each line … More

Ahhh. “social distancing” – a concept with which most of us weren’t familiar just about two and a half months … More

My goodness, how the posts are accumulating! I published my 600th post about six weeks ago on (Good) Friday, April … More

It’s not as late tonight (early morning) as it was when I wrote last night’s (early morning) post. So, I … More

Day double sixes on Monday (although I’m 2.5 hours into Tuesday now). Here’s a few relevant articles which caught my … More

It’s not too far after midnight (just 47 minutes to be exact) but the dishes are calling and I need … More

It’s not too much past midnight (0041) as I document the half-century mark of days of this Pandemic Period. In … More

It’s only slightly after midnight (0031) as I write this post. I’m confident that you, I and everyone else will … More

Look at this, I’m actually posting this on Thursday evening (2204) and not early Friday morning. It’s two for the … More

It’s Holy or Maundy Thursday. It is going to be a unique Triduum this year as I (and hopefully you … More