The Senate recently voted to apologize for not ending Southern filibusters to pass anti-lynching laws. Lynching is one of the greatest stains on American history. For close to a century, minorities — particularly African Americans — lived under the shadow of, if not state sponsored then state ignored, terrorism: Such was the case when James [...]
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Harvesting the Strange Fruit
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Seeing the Forrest has changed its URL. It is now at http://seeingtheforrest.com Mad Kane has another ode to the ridiculousness of Republicans. And, even better, she sings the song herself here. She’s actually pretty good. The Social Capital Foundation has a series of papers form the recent conferences here.
So there is this new book out that alleges Hillary Clinton is a lesbian essentially because she touched a lesbian’s hair and went to a college that had lesbians attending. Now, people may be tempted to mock such reasoning, but I think it is important to remember that the country has had its accountability moment [...]