Angela Merkel is now the leader of the free world – the US President’s sole ideology is corporate autocracy with a populist facade
More than half of his voters say the nonexistent Bowling Green Massacre is proof his immigration ban is necessary. BTW, it never happened, and Kellyanne Conway’s remark wasn’t a slip of the tongue, as she has said it before
DMV Glitch Registers Green Card Holders to Vote
If You Liked the Inquisition, You’ll Love the House Science Committee
How Each Senator Voted on Trump’s Cabinet and Administration Nominees
How to Become a Paid Protester
Americans Now Evenly Divided on Impeaching 45
“At the Intersection of Love, Faith and Holy Outrage: The Women’s March and the Gospel”
51 Immigrant Poets – An interactive map on the ‘Muslim ban’
Irwin Corey (1914-2017), who I last wrote about here
Suzanne Pleshette would have been 80 this year
Richard Hatch, RIP – I probably watched Battlestar Galactica, but I definitely saw him in The Streets of San Francisco
RIP Adele Dunlap, 114, oldest American
Bald men look more successful, intelligent and masculine. science says – well, duh
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Scathing Orange poem wins New Zealand competition
Paul Rapp’s New England Patriots connection
Amy Biancolli: it’s the best story pitch, the best, everyone thinks so
The ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ Show That Wasn’t: How CBS Refused to Have the Actress Play a Divorcee
New blogger: Tracy Brooke’s Travels, a woman from Atlanta now in Indonesia
Could Dogs be the State Vegetable?
NEW DC COMIC REINVENTS SNAGGLEPUSS AS ‘GAY SOUTHERN GOTHIC PLAYWRIGHT’
Now I Know: Why the U.S. Government Really Wants Some People To Take Vacations and The Man Who Gets Lots of Credit and Do You Want to Burn a Snowman? and The Trickiest Tongue Twister and Why In America, It’s Typically Free to Go Pee
Black History/Black Recency
Stories for “Black History Month – You can freely use AwesomeStories’ vast archive to explore the topic throughout February– This issue features people who: helped to overthrow slavery and “Jim Crow Laws”; helped to free and inspire millions of Americans; helped to forge a new path forward for their country
Louisiana kid’s ‘School to Prison Pipeline’ project
Who Gets to Be African-American? An Academic Question
I Shouldn’t Have To Learn Black History From A Movie
HOW AUTHOR TIMOTHY TYSON FOUND THE WOMAN AT THE CENTER OF THE EMMETT TILL CASE
A History Of Black Cowboys And The Myth That The West Was White
Jesse Owens Was Brave – So Were These 17 Other Black Olympians
The Racist Super Hero Who Never Made It
Music
“That Day In Bowling Green” written by Dave Stinton
Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty, Lorde Lead New Orleans Jazz Fest
Coverville 1157: Hollies and CSNY Cover Story for Graham Nash’s 75th and Our House – Graham Nash
Tom Jones And Janis Joplin – Raise Your Hand (1969)
Coverville 1158: Guns N’Roses Cover Story II
Jazz Legend Al Jarreau Dead at 76. Here’s Eight Performances That Show Why He Was the Greatest Male Jazz Singer of His Time
Asia singer John Wetton married Syracuse woman just 2 months before dying