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7 days in … Mediocrity
This week, January traveled to Switzerland and was humanely put out of its misery. The politically dreadful first chapter of 2018 contained a lot of “excitement” and taught us plenty about those who supposedly represent us. Regrettably, none of…
Book Review: Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File, by John Edgar Wideman
Surely one of the most shocking murders of the modern day freedom movement was that of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi, on August 28, 1955. The fourteen-year-old Chicago native was engaging in a time-honored tradition in the black, northern,…
Overturning Ohio HB 463 - Dismantling a corporate state and building something new
President Trump says – and the Supreme Court affirms – that we are “a nation of laws,” but no one questions “who” is making those laws. It takes a people’s movement to overturn unjust law and advance rights. And Ohioans are launching just…
Chief Wahoo Heads for the Showers
Even in the age of Trump, there are wins. Chief Wahoo, the Cleveland Indians’ longtime mascot, is finally heading for the showers.
For decades my indigenous buddy Mark Welch trekked up from Columbus, Ohio to opening day at the…