APRIL is here already! I haven't done an Odds and Sods post in almost a year, so here we go. My last Odds and Sods post featur...

NOTE: I originally posted this in February of 2011 , when the memorial was placed. It has now been 67 years; the memorial is now a mainsta...

Great graphic comes courtesy YELLOWDOG GRANNY . Blogger has unexpectedly monkeyed with the process of posting photos. Again. As stuffy...

... is the title of an article by Michael Lind on Salon . Some of it really rings true to me, and I thought I would do some quoting and com...

YouTube abruptly yanked my favorite Isaac Hayes song, thereby ruining my 2008 obituary post for Hayes . Boo. Hiss. (PS: I just edited it...

At left: the cover of Essie Mae Washington-Williams' biography, titled Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond . Sou...

65 years ago, the last lynching in South Carolina took place about 10-15 miles from where I live. And last year, after a very long 64 years...

64 years ago, the last lynching in South Carolina took place about 10-15 miles from where I live. And next week, after a very long 64 years...