We continue our presidential-themed Black History Month Wednesdays with Selma Burke – an amazing artist whose history has been all been ignored, despite her long trail of accomplishments. She was tasked to do a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Washington’s Birthday! Enjoy your day off (for some) and pick up a presidential biography! Or better yet, a copy of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and wonder why we keep finding ourselves in this demeaning immigration feedback loop.
Frederick Douglass was born in February 1818, and although we don’t know the exact day, he chose the 14th for himself, so happy 200th! Among a lifetime of struggles and accomplishments the likes of which I, and most people today,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An interesting byproduct of Two Party Opera has been showcasing just how much Donald Trump is presidential.
Happy Birthday to Abraham Lincoln! The “A for Assassination” folder was real and contained some 80 different death threats that he collected against himself once the staff stopped outright burning them. These, of course, don’t include the barrage of normal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
