Sensitivities were high enough that in the season opener for Columbia [High School in 1970] after [Walter] Payton scored on two long touchdown runs, two white men approached Boston. They wanted to know if Payton raising his index finger the final few yards of those runs signified the black power sign.
Errol Morris has another great series of postings on his New York Times blog Zoom. He picks…
Maybe we also need a national memorial and a national holiday to commemorate the 9/12 Tea Party…
h/t 3quarksdaily
People toss around the term “carpetbagger” a lot, often Southern liberals (at least in New Orleans), and…
It’s good to see Marc Ambinder caught Harry Shearer calling out Barack Obama for getting basic facts…
Here’s a link to a .pdf of a 16 page booklet promoting tourism in New Orleans from 1948: [download#1]
A friend of mine who works at a historical museum in downstate Illinois sent this along. There are some hand written notations from the original owner of the document from her long ago visit to Nola.