Tag: civil rights
Bob Dylan Exhibits David Bowie on Blackstar Syndrome With Rough and Rowdy Ways
In the spirit of appropriate things released in time for Father’s Day Weekend, can there be anything more “dad rock”-oriented at this point than Bob [Read More…]
The Low Bar For “Landmark”
As some LGBTQs (and mostly the straights that like to orbit their world) are celebrating the “landmark” decision made by the Supreme Court on June [Read More…]
The Persistent Pertinence of April 29, 1992
Immortalized by white men after N.W.A. already provided the cannon fodder of any protest against police brutality in 1988 with “Fuck Tha Police,” Sublime’s “April [Read More…]
The Gender Double Standard of Drinking in the 60s & Beyond
It was at the end of the 1960s that a staged protest by Betty Friedan and other feminist activists supporting the National Organization for Women [Read More…]
Doris Day Juxtaposed Against Scenes of Lynching: Two Americas Contrasted in I Am Not Your Negro
Remember This House was one of James Baldwin’s few “unfulfilled” projects, stalled at the thirty-page mark before he died in 1987 and was unable to [Read More…]