Serenity… a life's expedition

I think by now that just about everyone who might be connected to any electronic device or back-fence communication knows that Osama bin Laden is dead. The news was announced yesterday after first hurtling around the world on Twitter and other social networks, then the media. Too many reports to choose from for my obligatory [...]

Pretty much about using the National Archives for genealogical research, including ways to find former slave women. “… the women and children of colored soldiers …” And about what an excellent resource the National Archives’ Prologue magazine is. I’ve mentioned before that I’ve had a tough time finding  some of the women – of my [...]

Yesterday I speculated that Shirley Sherrod, far from being just a random attempted “gotcha!”, was specifically targeted by the right wing for who she is. Married to Charles Sherrod, one of the SNCC organizers of the Albany Project, a Civil Rights activist herself, and both of them party to the recently settled – but not funded – Pigford case, a long-running court [...]

I can’t view the video well, plus it’s easy for words to get lost, so here is a full transcript of what she said. I have removed the blockquotes because they make it more difficult for me, at least, to read and have instead cased Ms. Sherrod’s remarks in asterisks. It is obvious that someone [...]

i am accused of tending to the past as if i made it, as if i sculpted it with my own hands. i did not. this past was waiting for me when i came, a monstrous unnamed baby, and i with my mother’s itch took it to breast and named it History. she is more [...]