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One City’s Winding Road of Intolerance and Activism
I see Seattle’s protest culture as a point of pride.
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Glossing Over Eureka Springs History
This town has a unique and rather fraught history.
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The Myth of the Lost Cause: Robert E Lee Day and Confederate Monuments, Memorials, and Schools
Glorifying war is not a good look for anybody.
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Macon Love
“Do Not Attempt To Play Little Richard’s Piano. He Will Know.”
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PTRTSESSD: Post-Traumatic Racially Tense Southern Elementary School Stress Disorder
What horrible lessons to teach a child.
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The Checkered Past of Public Libraries in America
Libraries weren’t always the wonderful democratic institutions that they are today.
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St. Augustine, Florida: Civil Rights Distilled
Since yesterday was Martin Luther King Day, my mind naturally turns to the civil rights movement. It seems that one of the best kept secrets about that movement were the events that took place in St. Augustine, Florida, just an hour south of where I now sit. St. Augustine is known as our nation’s oldest…
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Unwanted Legacies: The Shame that is Nathan B. Forrest High School
Here in Jacksonville, Florida, we have a high school named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a confederate general who led the massacre of African American union soldiers at Fort Pillow and was one of the earliest members of the Ku Klux Klan. That school was named based on the recommendations of the Daughters of the Confederacy,…
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The Cigarette Girl and the Waving Man
I spent the first 10 years of my life in Connecticut, so when we moved to a small Southern town in the 1970’s, it was quite a culture shock. The segregation was more subtle than it had been in the 50’s, of course. We all went to school together. But we certainly didn’t live in…