Gemal Woods is doing something exciting out of his Park Triangle shop. And this blog has mentioned it before. It’s “The Angle.” A few weeks ago I went to check it out in person. Did I hear him say he has 2000 interviews recorded? Obviously there’s more to this than just an angle. I’m giving [...]
Yesterday, the NAACP passed a resolution condemning the racist acts of Tea Party protesters. The backlash from the Tea Party has been furious. But we are not an organization that shies away from controversy. The NAACP was founded on hope, not hate — and we will not stand idly by as racists work to divide [...]
There are two things that happen when a show goes off the air. One is you quit and the other is somebody from the network knocks on your door and says, ‘Stop doing this.’ – Carol Burnett, actress, comedian For veteran journalist Helen Thomas, it was both. Yesterday, Thomas, the first woman to be admitted [...]
Message from Thomas Sayers Ellis. See you September 30th TOWARDS A MORE CIVIL UNION – JIM LEACH, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES “In our society we rightly identify hate words with racial, ethnic, and gender slurs. What are we therefore to make of the usage or what more aptly might be described [...]
From my sister. And be sure to check out the Pew Research Center for People and the Press’ report on how the public evaluates the acuracy of the news media. The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and [...]
No longer tied to his desk with a sock in his mouth, Van is now freed to do what he does best: inspire and energize groups around the country. Student groups and labor groups and small business groups and middle class Americans everywhere who are losing jobs and losing homes and losing hope. He’s free [...]
For someone like me who grew up in D.C. neighborhoods, Capitol Hill was like another world, an island unto itself. That was called “Washington,” we lived in “D.C.” The feeling from the Hill seemed to be mutual and the divide has widened over the years. My sister once described official Washington as a college campus: [...]
Everybody’s got a story. About a week into living on planet earth, you can count yourself among the many who have a past. And definitely by the time you learn to talk, think, eat and sleep on your own watch, you’ve got a perspective. My friend Amy Hendrick, a talented photographer, cool person, and someone [...]
