Sometimes you don't know when you are lucky. Certainly I did not consider myself lucky when I left home at 17 and discovered the hard way that there was no great demand for a black teenage dropout with no experience and no skill. ...more

September 24, 2008

BLACK KIDS: PARTIE TRAUMATIC (COLUMBIA) *** Who knew a local band from Jacksonville would have the masses wanting to hang out with Black Kids - the indie rockers, that is? ...more

August 7, 2008

Alan Levine of Palm Harbor says Republicans lose power when they start acting live liberals. ...more

June 21, 2008

Oliver Brown was angry. His daughter, Linda, had been denied admission to Sumner Elementary, an all-white school four blocks from his house in Topeka, Kan., because she was black. The board of education ordered her to Monroe Elementary, an all-black school two miles away. Worse still, she didn't get bused and had to walk. ...more

December 9, 2007