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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
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....As for the issue of Confederate statues, Mr. Hayes — a visiting instructor in studio art at Duke University — says he would welcome a memorial for the Rebel forces that opposed the black Union troops. “How would the two statues interact?” he said. “What would that conversation be like?”
Updated on March 8, 2020, 10:51 PM EDT
CME rules stipulate futures can’t fall more than 5% from close; S&P 500 futures sink as Saudi Arabia wages oil price war
The latest wave of arrests has raised questions about whether the crown prince was on the verge of taking full power from his father, King Salman.
By David D. Kirkpatrick & Ben Hubbard @ NYTimes.com, March 7
At least four Saudi princes have been ensnared in a wave of detentions ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a person close to the royal family said Saturday.
Prince Nayef bin Ahmed, who held senior positions in the military, was detained on Friday along with at least three other senior members of the royal family. The full extent of the roundup remains unclear [....]
Moses was 14 when this occurred. Hard to assume a 4-year-old and 7-year-okd had better memories of a dysfunctional family and a terminal domestic dispute.
I thought I had fully read Moses's account before, but this time it struck much harder. But sure, cancel Woody and th memoirs.
#MeToo #WhosNext?
FT-Peterson survey finds Americans view medical charges as growing threat to economy
How understanding the mind of a radical Islamist can prevent the next white-nationalist attack.
Missed this from Friday. Caught it recommended watching a video @ The Hill. That Warren chose to go with the elite woke, but elite woke don't work in demos like grass roots SC.
By Astead W. Herndon @ NYTimes.com, Feb. 28
She earned coveted endorsements and released racial justice plans that scholars agree could make a real difference. That hasn’t meant much on the ground.
By Victor Luckerson @ NewYorker.com, March 1
The Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church is one of Tulsa’s smallest congregations, attracting only about seventy-five members on a good Sunday. The three-story, red brick building, which appears stately from a distance, reveals its age on closer inspection. The white paint on its windowsills is chipped nearly bare, the plaster walls that line its main hall are cracked, and its clouded stained-glass windows rattle when a semi trundles across the interstate overpass next door. This is not a typical place of respite for billionaires. But Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, who will be on the ballot for the first time in Oklahoma and thirteen other states on Tuesday, stood in the Vernon pulpit on the last Sunday in January and spoke about the economic legacy of racism.
Campaigning the day before Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, Bloomberg had chosen a potent symbol of black history. Vernon AME’s neighborhood, the Greenwood district, was a thriving enclave of black-owned businesses in the early twentieth century that came to be known as Black Wall Street. In 1921 it was burned down in a brutal act of terrorist violence by members of Tulsa’s white community [....]