Introduction: For me, the sudden abandonment of neutrality by Sweden and Finland after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine were like separate lightning bolts striking the same tree. How likely was that? Sweden had been a neutral country for 200+ years. Finland for 75, since 1948.
How novelist Zora Neale Hurston transformed American anthropology A 2025 documentary, “Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming Space,” focuses on Hurston’s work as one of the country’s first Black woman ethnographers and filmmakers From The Washington Post By DeNeen L. Brown — January 17, 2023 In the late 1920s, Zora Neale Hurston, who would become one of … Continue reading Black History Month Lives Here: Zora Neale Hurston: Pioneering Anthropologist & Author
Washington Post: Two states still observe King-Lee Day, honoring Robert E. Lee with MLK Alabama and Mississippi jointly celebrate the civil rights hero and the Confederate general Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (left) and Confederate general Robert E. Lee are still celebrated jointly in Alabama and Mississippi. (AFP/Getty Images (King); Matthew B. Brady/AP … Continue reading The “Ambiguous South” Honors Robert E. Lee alongside MLK Today
Selma, Alabama, February 1965 I I was arrested again on February third, marching outside the Dallas County courthouse in downtown Selma. I spent the following ten days in jail. Half that time I was back in the county jail’s dayroom, where I had been crammed in with Dr. King and 200-plus other marchers on February … Continue reading Another for Dr. King: The Night March & The Killers
Gwynne Dyer — Saltwire Pundits are making much of the similarities between the attempted coup in Washington by Donald Trump supporters two years ago and the one by Jair Bolsonaro supporters in Brasilia last Sunday, but they are missing the biggest one. These debacles were the most incompetent and half-hearted attempts to seize power illegally … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer on Two Stupid Attempted Coups & a Warning