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This Little Light of Mine
The interactive sculpture titled "This Little Light of Mine", at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The museum opened in December 2017 ( Read more... ) -
A place to go
Photos from the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. (Not by me; I wish!)
- A Ku Klux Klan robe. (Gallery 6, I think)
- Glass black monuments depicting the 600 victims of lynching. (Gallery 2)
- Mock-up of a county jail prison cell. (Gallery 5)
- The rotunda at the heart of the circular museum. Above is the "This Little Light of Mine" sculpture. Around the walls ( Read more... )
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On diversity
From an article in The New Yorker this month:
Diversity is increasingly the scapegoat when something old and reliable begins to falter. This year, the supposed overemphasis on diversity was invoked to explain everything from ESPN's falling ratings to the middling quality of U.S. soccer, from flagging enthusiasm for the Star Wars universe to a dip ( Read more... ) -
Allen, we wish you were here
In memoriam: Allen R. SchindlerAirman Apprentice Terry M. Helvey stomped Petty Officer Third Class Allen R. Schindler to death in a toilet in a park in Sasebo, Nagasaki. Helvey crushed his skull, caved in his rib cage on both side, caved in his sternum, and pulped all the major organs in his abdomen. He then mutilated Schindler's penis ( Read more... ) -
#WeSupportKaepernick
"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
- James A. Baldwin
#WeSupportKaepernick
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