“White Americans seem to feel that happy songs are happy and sad songs are sad, and that, God help us, is exactly the way most white Americans sing themâsounding, in both cases, so helplessly, defenselessly fatuous that one dare not speculate on the temperature of the deep freeze from which issue their brave and sexless Read more...
Archive for September, 2010
Annals of Rock Criticism
Thursday, September 30th, 2010Tags: James Baldwin, Marnie Stern, rock criticism, singing, Village Voice, white people
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City Hall rally scheduled to coincide with vote on sheriff contract
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010Kevin Gray, a local author and community activist, has scheduled a rally at Columbia, South Carolina, City Hall next week to coincide with the City Councilâs scheduled vote on whether to ask Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott to lead the Columbia Police Department. You can probably tell how Gray feels about this just by looking Read more...
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Happy Labor Day
Saturday, September 4th, 2010Of course, in most of the rest of the world (more than 80 countries–September is used by about six), Labor Day isn’t in September. It’s on May 1. Marginalized in Wikipedia as “International Workers Day,” the real labor day’s date was chosen of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre, which happened in Chicago. The “massacre” was of Read more...
Tags: contemporary labor facts, Institute of Southern Studies, Labor Day history, Land of Hope and Dreams
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