Listen to the story… by NPR STAFF and PATRICK JARENWATTANANON Above is the audio for a remembrance of Billy Taylor, on All Things Considered. Below is a brief written obituary of him. Billy Taylor, a pianist who became one of the country’s foremost ambassadors for jazz music — including many years as an NPR host — died Tuesday [...]
The Colar Men singing!
About the Movie: Gift openings for the kids and adults. It was late in the evening and some of the kids were up way past their bed times. Christmas Day 2010 began with a bit of snow for Wheaton followed by sleet as we drove eastward into the Chicago to visit with my sisters children [...]
Yet another non-ride ride report! There have been a lot of these lately, given the weather. Oh well! Thanks to the Wheel and Sprocket Staff Despite a downturned economy the annual Christmas Party has been a fixture of the Wheel and Sprocket scene for lo these many years. Chris Kegel is always gracious in welcoming [...]
December 21, 2010 Arthur George (A.G.) Gaston played a little-noticed role in history. An African-American man born in a log cabin in Demopolis, Alabama in 1892, he defied the social climate of the times to become a business leader, and later, a behind-the-scenes political leader at a critical time in Civil Rights history. Buttons To [...]
by Amanda Terkel WASHINGTON — The 1971 book Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town by journalist Willie Morris paints a far more complicated picture of Yazoo City’s desegregation than Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) portrayed, perhaps exemplified by the attitudes of Jeppie Barbour, Haley’s older brother who was elected mayor in 1968. As Andrew Ferguson noted in [...]
Yet another no-ride ride report. Last evening we decided to take a ride north to the Wheel and Sprocket store in Hales Corners, Wi. The weather is still pretty frigid in these parts and while riding is possible it is not pleasant. So a road trip seemed like just the way to while away the [...]
This is another non-ride ride report. We began the day by taking shopping bags of food stuffs to our friends at the Homeless Veterans Shelter here in Wheaton. As Connie went into the group home to drop off what she had purchased another lady was being escorted out having been there to no doubt cook [...]
By MEREDITH MELNICK The practice of passing — identifying with and presenting oneself as one race while denying ancestry of another — reached its peak during the Jim Crow era. Needless to say, the notion of having to “pass” as white is outdated and offensive, but as sociologists Nikki Khanna and Cathryn Johnson report in a [...]
By JEFFREY KLUGER Never mind what you’ve heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the [...]
R.A.I.N. Recycling Animals In Need is what the acronym means. For several years we have volunteered with this organization at Christmas when they take pictures of your pet with Santa for a donation. It’s been a bit of fun! One of our cats (Gabriella Terra) was found for us by these folks and so we [...]
“You can no longer talk about what black America thinks or feels,” writes Eugene Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist, in a new book about the increasing disconnect between America’s African-American communities. In Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America, Robinson argues that America’s African-American population can now be divided into four distinct groups: the [...]
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