Category Archives: Black & White & Other Colors

Supreme Court Dissents: Naming The Outrages, Painting A Better Future — Someday

Joan E Greve in Washington — Mon 11 Jul 2022 Opinions from Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor send stark warning about increasingly radical court abandoning long-held principles Taken together, the dissents written by the three liberal justices this term send a clear warning about an increasingly radical court that is abandoning long-held principles and even the … Continue reading Supreme Court Dissents: Naming The Outrages, Painting A Better Future — Someday →

Another Quaker Holiday Story: Playing the Lottery

Playing the Lottery Winter 1969, Boston. I was driving a cab at night, while attending Harvard Divinity School. I had run through some scholarship and loan money, and needed cash; Christmas and all that. But I also thought it would be a “good experience” for a wannabe writer. When I turned my cab onto St. … Continue reading Another Quaker Holiday Story: Playing the Lottery →

Democracy In Peril: Progressive Billionaires to the Rescue?? (Well, Maybe . . .)

“Money,” truthfully spake the legendary California pol Jesse Unruh, “is the mother’s milk of politics.” And if money, rather than love, is All You Need (as spake, or crooned, the legendary Beatles), Democrats & their worried (“terrified” is more accurate) and beleaguered progressives ought to be breathing easier today, despite the fate of Roe. The … Continue reading Democracy In Peril: Progressive Billionaires to the Rescue?? (Well, Maybe . . .) →

Juneteenth Feature: Rep. Bennie Thompson, “An Avid Hunter,” Closes In On The Biggest Target of All

NOTE: the Jan. 6 committee has announced two more dates and times for hearings: > Tuesday, June 21: 10 a.m. Pacific > Thursday, June 23: noon Pacific Now York Times: ‘He Took Jan. 6 Personally’ Representative Bennie G. Thompson, chairman of the committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, has spent his career fighting to … Continue reading Juneteenth Feature: Rep. Bennie Thompson, “An Avid Hunter,” Closes In On The Biggest Target of All →

A Long, Satisfying Read: DuBois’s “Black Reconstruction”

The Nation: Abolition Democracy W.E.B. Du Bois and the making of Black Reconstruction. By Gerald Horne – MAY 3, 2022 By the time his magnum opus, Black Reconstruction, was published in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois was already a rara avis—a prominent Black activist-intellectual in the midst of Jim Crow. Dapper and diminutive, and nattily … Continue reading A Long, Satisfying Read: DuBois’s “Black Reconstruction” →