The Jordan Peele book ‘Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror’ and documentary ‘Horror Noir: A History of Black Horror’ illustrate why the Black guy was first to die in Hollywood
The citizens of our nation — White and Black — seem unwilling to aspire to America’s ideals even though we all proclaim to love liberty, justice and equality. … Equal citizenship under the Constitution is a mirage that Blacks have wandered towards for generations across a desert of institutionalized persecution
“Public Good?” Farmers, environmentalists (taxpayers, perhaps?) rallying against Navigator, Wolf Carbon putting CO2 pipes into their land
If there is ample rain to create fluddles, many of the shorebirds {sandpipers, plovers, and their kin) will drop into these fleeting pools to feed during the day.
Historic “Doll Tests” conducted by Dr. Kenneth and Mamie Clark in New York helped Americans realize disadvantages of segregation across the nation
Following national trends, homicides in Peoria started dropping last year after more than doubling between 2020 and 2021. They are down 21% in Peoria since July
It is a fancy way of saying that when really, really bad things unexpectedly happen, due to unforeseen circumstances and crises, the need to adapt to handle these challenges positively or negatively will determine how one’s quality of life is influenced. Mass shootings, increased crime and violence, book banning, and historical revisionism — Florida’s 2023 Social Studies curriculum, which will include lessons on how “slaves developed skills” that could be used for “personal benefit.”
Federal budgets gutting the IRS, whose audits target “earned income” homes over the wealthy. … Candidates say they support “law and order.” But it’s really for some.
The heated confrontation between Peoria Rivermen fans and the Civic Center Authority Board is over — for now. A short-term, one-year lease agreement with a second year option was reached and all God’s children said “Amen.” Not everyone praised Ric…
It’s one thing to enrich the wealthy through targeted tax cuts, etc., but must government make the poor needier? That’s looking likely since Congress in its Consolidated Appropriations Act, enacted Dec. 29, 2022, set March 31 of this year as…
