GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! As you indulge in your Sunday breakfast/brunch, enjoy this collection of jazz songs dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement.... Charles Mingus - "Original Faubus Fables" Charles Mingus was known for being angry and outspoken on the bandstand. One expression of his anger was certainly justified, and it came in response to the 1957 Little Rock Nine … [Read more...] about Sunday Open Thread: P.O.U. Sunday Jazz Brunch
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Thursday Evening Thread: Nobody Turn Me Around – The Longest March
3 Teens, one mission. To walk from Gadsden AL to Washington, DC in the summer of 1963. The Longest March ON A PITCH-BLACK NIGHT, a crescent moon barely visible in the sky, three teenaged boys walked along the gentle slopes of Highland Avenue on the edge of Lookout Mountain, then to U.S. Highway 11, north of their hometown of Gadsden, Alabama. The oldest, a … [Read more...] about Thursday Evening Thread: Nobody Turn Me Around – The Longest March
Monday Open Thread: Celebs in the Civil Rights Movement
Lena Horne, the granddaughter of Cora Calhoun Horne, a prominent activist with W.E.B. Du Bois in the Niagara Movement that gave rise to the NAACP,was active in the NAACP virtually from birth. At the age of two, in 1919, she appeared on the cover of the NAACP's monthly journal, The Crisis, which was edited by Du Bois. … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Celebs in the Civil Rights Movement
Monday Afternoon Thread: August 6, 1965 – Voters Rights Act Signed
47 years ago today: … [Read more...] about Monday Afternoon Thread: August 6, 1965 – Voters Rights Act Signed
Wednesday Evening Thread: This President is just too good for us
This country doesn't deserve someone so compassionate and intelligent. We got Dubya because we deserved Dubya. We got PBO because God watches out for babies and fools. Michelle's influence. video platform video management video solutions video player … [Read more...] about Wednesday Evening Thread: This President is just too good for us