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Settlement Reached in Civil Suit Charging Franklin County, MS Role in 1964 KKK Murders

On Monday, June 21, Franklin County, Mississippi agreed to a settlement in an historic civil suit with…

Last winter I drove to Providence, RI full of trepidation and sadness. My incredible Aunt Esther, my maternal grandfather's sister, had pneumonia. I was going to see her to make…

The Clarion Ledger reports:

Billy Wayne Posey, a key suspect in the Ku Klux Klan's killings of three civil rights workers in 1964 in Mississippi, has died, but Justice Department officials say they'r…

My google alerts on "Hungry Blues" sometimes turn up interesting things. Steven Taylor of the Fugs has written a song that is also called Hungry Blues. It's very much in the spirit of the original so…

This is Nicole. She is one of the many talented photographers whose work I follow on flickr.

The same night that the co…

The Constitution was
A noble piece of paper
With free society
Struggled but it died in vain
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner—unemployed
And I'm hopin' that it rains
Been a hopin' for some r…

When I was reading Daisy's post about Pfc. LaVena Johnson, I got stuck on one of the details. The indications of possible rape and other physical violence and murder all were troubling enough. But th…

One of your emails about our dinner plans last night made me think of this song.

"The Old Stamping Ground" (1937)

Personnel:

Willie "The Lion" Smith - piano

Frankie Newton - trumpet

Buster Bailey - c…