Category Archives: writing & Such

Black History Month Lives Here: Zora Neale Hurston: Pioneering Anthropologist & Author

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 →

My 2022 Rollercoaster: Photos & Cartoons, Part 1

January 2022: was it sunrise for Democracy, or sunset? We weren’t the only worried ones . . . . . . In Washington, the Supremes were busy working up their new minority rule act, with a special interest in the coming midterm elections, and protecting their withering reputations from the “stench” of their “ethics free … Continue reading My 2022 Rollercoaster: Photos & Cartoons, Part 1 →

Leonard Pitts Retires from writing columns; will write books

Pulitzer Prize-winning national columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. is retiring and wrote his final column Tuesday. “Time flew, didn’t it? Now, it’s time for me to fly off, too.”

Quaker Book Review: “The Living Remnant” Rides Again

The Living Remnant & Other Quaker Tales. By “KKK,” (Edith Florence O’Brien.) Published by Headley Brothers in UK, 1900. A Friend came across this book and passed along a link. It’s a series of four related stories about a tightly-knit (i. e., very insular) British Quaker meeting community, in about 1875. The “tales” portray, … Continue reading Quaker Book Review: “The Living Remnant” Rides Again →

Heads Up: Willian Penn Followup Coming Soon

Was William Penn Punished Enough? (Partial List) Jailed: Cork Ireland, Sept. 1668, for attending meeting. Tower of London, Nov or Dec-1668 – 8 months; accused (but not tried) of blasphemy, wrote No Cross, No Crown. Again in August 1670, for preaching, tried with Quaker William Mead in Mead-Bushell case: established the right of juries to … Continue reading Heads Up: Willian Penn Followup Coming Soon →