Thursday, February 27, 2014

Movies That Made History: Fog's Top 5

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Very rarely do poems, songs, or movies, etc. make, impact, change, or influence history (or even have any significant cultural impact)......
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Rise Above...Never To Go Under!

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In class, my students are currently exploring Harlem Renaissance (aka The New Negro Movement) Poetry and it's relationship to The Fir...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Z. Alexander Looby: The Man Who Saved Thurgood Marshall

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  Z. Alexander Looby disobeyed police and took a U-turn on a dark November night in 1946 just outside of Columbia, Tennessee...that U-t...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Woodrow Wilson: An Example of American Amnesia

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Full disclosure: Woodrow Wilson is one of my least favorite POTUS... Helen Keller called Woodrow Wilson... "The greatest individua...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

W.E.B. DuBois: "Perfect" Heroes

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Americans love a flawless hero...a perfect story...a happy ending...an easy myth over difficult reality. These are the challenges and di...
Monday, February 3, 2014

Winter Olympics: Top 10 Memories

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  I have always loved the Winter Olympics...it is the only sporting event I would put above Ali vs. Frazier...The Stanley Cup Playoffs.....
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Pete Seeger: The Inconvenient Truth

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He told the inconvenient truth... 1919-2014 Pete Seeger, one of the quintessential protest singers/ songwriters of the modern era, died...