In Praise of Utah Phillips
by David Rovics
I was watching my baby daughter sleep in her carseat outside of the Sacramento airport about ten hours ago when I noticed a missed call from Brendan Phillips. He’s in a band called Fast Rattler with several friends of mine, two of whom live in my new hometown of Portland, Oregon, one of whom needed a ride home from the Greyhound station. I called back, and soon thereafter heard the news from Brendan that his father had died the night before in his sleep, when his heart stopped beating.
I wouldn’t want to elevate anybody to inappropriately high heights, but for me, Utah Phillips was a legend.
I first became familiar with the Utah Phillips phenomenon in the late 80’s, when I was in my early twenties, working part-time as a prep cook at Morningtown in Seattle. I had recently read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, and had been particularly enthralled by the early 20th Century section, the stories of the Industrial Workers of the World. So it was with great interest that I first discovered a greasy cassette there in the kitchen by the stereo, Utah Phillips Sings the Songs and Tells the Stories of the Industrial Workers of the World.
As a young radical, I had heard lots about the 1960’s. There were (and are) plenty of veterans of the struggles of the 60’s alive and well today. But the wildly tumultuous era of the first two decades of the 20th century is now (and pretty well was then) a thing entirely of history, with no one living anymore to tell the stories. And while long after the 60’s there will be millions of hours of audio and video recorded for posterity, of the massive turn-of-the-century movement of the industrial working class there will be virtually none of that.
To hear Utah tell the stories of the strikes and the free speech fights, recounting hilariously the day-to-day tribulations of life in the hobo jungles and logging camps, singing about the humanity of historical figures such as Big Bill Haywood, Joe Hill or Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, was to bring alive an era that at that point only seemed to exist on paper, not in the reality of the senses. But Utah didn’t feel like someone who was just telling stories from a bygone era — it was more like he was a bridge to that era.
Hearing these songs and stories brought to life by him, I became infected by the idea that if people just knew this history in all it’s beauty and grandeur, they would find the same hope for humanity and for the possibility for radical social change that I had just found through Utah.
Thus, I became a Wobbly singer, too. I began to stand on a street corner on University Way with a sign beside me that read, “Songs of the Seattle General Strike of 1919.” I mostly sang songs I learned from listening to Utah’s cassette, plus some other IWW songs I found in various obscure collections of folk music that I came across.
It was a couple years later that I first really discovered Utah Phillips, the songwriter. I had by this time immersed myself with great enthusiasm in the work of many contemporary performers in what gets called the folk music scene, and had developed a keen appreciation for the varied and brilliant songwriting of Jim Page and others. Then, in 1991, I came across Utah’s new cassette, I’ve Got To Know, and soon thereafter heard a copy of a much earlier recording, Good Though.
Whether he’s recounting stories from his own experiences or those of others doesn’t matter. There is no need to know, for in the many hours Utah spent in his troubled youth talking with old, long-dead veterans of the rails and the IWW campaigns, a bridge from now to then was formed in this person, in his pen and in his deep, resonant voice. In Good Though I heard the distant past breathing and full of life in Utah’s own compositions, just as they breathed in his renditions of older songs.
In I’ve Got To Know I heard an eloquent and current voice of opposition to the American Empire and the bombing of Iraq, rolled together seamlessly with the voices of deserters, draft dodgers and tax resisters of the previous century.
In reference to the power of lying propaganda, a friend of mine used to say it takes ten minutes of truth to counteract 24 hours of lies. But upon first hearing Utah’s song, “Yellow Ribbon,” it seemed to me that perhaps that ratio didn’t give the power of truth enough credit. It seemed to me that if the modern soldiers of the empire would have a chance to hear Utah’s monologues there about his anguish after his time in the Army in Korea, or the breathtakingly simple depiction of life under the junta in El Salvador in his song “Rice and Beans,” they would just have to quit the military.
Utah made it clear in word and in deed that steeping yourself in the tradition was required of any good practitioner of the craft, and I did my best to follow in his footsteps and do just that. I learned lots of Utah’s songs as well as the old songs he was playing. Making a living busking in the Boston subways for years, I ran into other folks who were doing just that, as well as writing great songs, such as Nathan Phillips (no relation). Nathan was from West Virginia, and did haunting versions of “The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia,” “Larimer Street,” “All Used Up,” and other songs. In different T stops at the same time, Nathan and I could often be found both singing the songs of Utah Phillips for the passersby.
Traveling around the US in the 1990’s and since then, it seemed that Utah’s music had, on a musical level, had the same kind of impact that Zinn’s People’s History or somewhat earlier works such as Jeremy Brecher’s book, Strike!, had had in written form — bringing alive vital history that had been all but forgotten. With Ani DiFranco’s collaboration with Utah, this became doubly true, seemingly overnight, and this man who had had a loyal cult following before suddenly had, if not what might be called popularity, at least a loyal cult following that was now twice as big as it had been in the pre-Ani era.
I had had the pleasure of hearing Utah live in concert only once in the early 90’s, doing a show with another great songwriter, Charlie King, in the Boston area. I was looking forward to hearing him play again around there in 1995, but what was to be a Utah Phillips concert turned into a benefit for Utah’s medical expenses, when he had to suddenly drastically cut down on his touring, due to heart problems. I think there were about twenty different performers doing renditions of Utah Phillips’ songs at Club Passim that night. I did “Yellow Ribbon.”
Traveling in the same circles and putting out CDs on the same record label, it was fairly inevitable that we’d meet eventually. The first time was several years ago, if memory serves me, behind the stage at the annual protest against the School of the Americas in Columbus, Georgia. I think I successfully avoided seeming too painfully star-struck. Utah was complaining to me earnestly about how he didn’t know what to do at these protests, didn’t feel like he had good protest material. I think he did just fine, though I can’t recall what he did.
Utah lived in Nevada City, and the last time I was there he came to the community radio station while I was appearing on a show. This was soon after Katrina, and I remember singing my song, “New Orleans,” and Utah saying embarrassingly nice things. I was on a little tour with Norman Solomon speaking and me singing, and we had done an event the night before in town, which Utah was too tired to attend, if I recall.
Me, Utah, Norman, and my companion, Reiko, went over to a nice breakfast place after the radio show, talked and ate breakfast. Utah did most of the talking, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that his use of mysterious hobo colloquialisms and frequent references to obscure historical characters in twentieth-century American anarchist history was something he did off stage as well as on.
I’ve passed near enough to that part of California many times since then. Called once when I was nearby and he was out of town, doing a show in Boston. Otherwise I just thought about calling and dropping by, but didn’t take the time. Life was happening, and taking a day or two off in Nevada City was always something that I never quite seemed to find the time for. Always figured next time I’ll have more time, I’ll call him then. It had been thirteen years since he found out about his heart problems, and he hadn’t kicked the bucket yet… Of course, now I wish I had taken the time when I had the chance, and I’m sure there are many other people who feel the same way.
In any case, for those of us who knew his music, whether from recordings or concerts, for those of us who knew Utah from his stories on or off the stage, whether we knew him as that human bridge to the radical labor movement of yesterday, or as the voice of the modern-day hobos, or as that funky old guy that Ani did a couple of CDs with, Utah Phillips will be remembered and treasured by many.
He was undeniably a sort of musical-political-historical institution in his own day. He said he was a rumor in his own time. No question, one man’s rumor is another man’s legend, but who cares, it’s just words anyway.
DAVID ROVICS can be reached through his website.
David Rovics is a songwriter, podcaster, and part of Portland Emergency Eviction Response. Go to artistsforrentcontrol.org to sign up to receive text notifications, so you can be part of this effort. Another Portland is possible.


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November 7, 2008 1:32 pm ET
ProElite, Inc. has fired back in the emerging tug of war with Showtime over the future of the mixed martial arts promotion.
ProElite, which cancelled its Nov. 8 show and ceased promotional operations at the end of October, is attempting to thwart Showtime’s plan to sell ProElite’s remaining assets at public auction.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, ProElite stated that it will try to block the sale.
“The Company plans to take all appropriate measures to prevent the sale from occurring. Such measures may include raising additional financing, filing a lawsuit enjoining the sale, filing a bankruptcy petition or negotiating a settlement with Showtime. There can be no assurances that the Company will be successful in any of these actions.”
Showtime has claimed rights to ProElite’s “tangible and intangible” assets after the company defaulted on two promissory notes of $4 million that it lent to the company in June and September. The premium cable company notified the public markets earlier this week of its intentions to auction off those assets, which include fighter contracts, on Nov. 17.
Last month, Showtime notified ProElite that it violated a debt agreement and failed to maintain a minimum of $550,000 of unrestricted funds in its bank account. ProElite has a debt obligation to Showtime of approximately $6.3 million, “which is secured by substantially all of the company’s assets.” With ProElite unable to pay back the loan, Showtime claimed that it has the right to sell ProElite’s assets to recoup the loan.
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Mr Seymour perhaps deserves a bit of credit. His Bill of Parliament to permit voluntary euthanasia has been drawn from the ballot. He is to his credit one of the few Members of Parliament actively working to address the issue, and I was personally pleased when it was drawn.
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I don’t expect that it will ever be more than right wing bit party. But as long as Epsom wants an A.C.T. member to be their M.P., and he can find a cause or two to rally his party around, I cannot see A.C.T. leaving Parliament either – which for the purpose of knowing where the right wing fringe are, might not be a bad thing.
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NFL: A day in the shoes of a Green Bay Packers…
NFL: A day in the shoes of a Green Bay Packers owner
Some organizations hold meetings in conference rooms. The Green Bay Packers conductd their shareholder meeting on the turf at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. on Wednesday.
By Mercury News | themerc@bayareanewsgroup.com |
PUBLISHED: July 25, 2013 at 1:51 a.m. | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 5:14 p.m.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — We all know the story: The Green Bay Packers are the only community-owned franchise in major professional sports.
The history is awfully cute, but I’m sure most Vikings fans are weary of the Packers’ happy-go-lucky tale. While some in this state don’t fully appreciate the greatest football team in history, I do.
The son of Iowa expatriates, I fell in love with Brett Favre and the Packers as a 5-year-old and have embraced every high and low over the past 16 years. It wasn’t until my mom bought me a share of the Green Bay Packers in late 2011, though, that I actually owned a share of my favorite team.
Sure, there are 364,121 others — including my brother — who claim a share of the Packers. But when I watch a football game and say, “We should have thrown the ball on third and 4,” I’m actually talking about my team.
There are many who wonder, “Why would you pay for a piece of paper that means nothing?” Well, one day a year, my stock certificate actually provides a tangible benefit: a ticket to the annual meeting of shareholders.
This year, that day was Wednesday, July 24. Come along with me, my brother Nick and his friend Elia to Green Bay, Wis., if you want to experience life in the shoes of an NFL owner:
9:35 a.m. — For the second consecutive day, Nick gets lost on some Green Bay highway. The gates at Lambeau Field opened at 9 a.m., and we’re running late, so we decide to avoid the stadium parking lot and pull into a neighborhood to park. We leave the car in front of a house on Thorndale Street that has multiple Packers stickers on the garage. The stadium lights poke out above backyard trees.
10:16 a.m. — I get through the east side doors on my second try; the first time, I forgot my ticket in the car and had to walk all the way back. I get the feeling Jerry Jones doesn’t get turned away when he forgets his ticket into Cowboys Stadium.
As I walk into the Lambeau Field Atrium — a five-story structure connected to the stadium that includes the Packers Pro Shop, the Packers Hall of Fame and Curly’s Pub — thousands of people move in different directions. Some slap nametags on their shirts and jerseys, while others stand in line for raffles. I find Nick and Elia, and we proceed through a large set of doors to Lambeau.
10:21 a.m. — We take our seats in Section 115 for the 11 a.m. meeting as the stadium serenades us with Matchbox 20 songs and a 2012 highlight reel titled “Unfinished Business,” a reference to the Packers’ playoff loss in San Francisco last January. The owners boo lustily as the “Fail Mary” play against the Seahawks flashes up on the board.
11 a.m. — The unrest does not last long. We cheer as the Packers’ front office strolls onto the field to their seats on a tent-shaded stage. President/CEO Mark Murphy and executive vice president/general manager Ted Thompson are the two biggest names to address the crowd. They are here to make us — the owners — happy, as it should be with any franchise.
Thompson reminds us of Green Bay’s recent gridiron glory: the 1996 and 2010 world championships, the fact that the Packers are the only NFC team to make the playoffs the past four years, and the Packers’ 20-1 record in their past 21 games at Lambeau Field.
Then, he turns on the charm:
“It’s not about the facilities,” Thompson says. “It’s about the people.”
11:42 a.m. — The Packers expected 17,000 owners and guests to be in attendance, and the crowd takes up almost half of the stadium’s lower bowl. Just about everybody gets whipped into a frenzy as Murphy waxes poetic about the fruits of 2011’s wildly successful stock sale.
He points out the 7,000-seat expansion in the south end zone, new video boards, the new sound system, and renovation plans for the Atrium. The stadium will hold 80,750 fans this fall, good enough for third in the NFL (behind Washington and New Jersey).
“We passed Dallas!” Murphy exclaims as we cheer ourselves silly.
12:38 p.m. — I’m with three of the best-dressed owners in the stadium. People started pouring out by the hundreds after treasurer Mark McMullen began talking about boring things like record operations profit and net income.
The escapees include Dale Decker, Bruce Roeshner and Chris Handler. Decker is decked out in a Packers jersey, gold athletic shorts and a cheesehead signed by several prominent players.
Roeshner is dressed like a vintage ACME Packer from the 1920s, including a leather helmet and decidedly modern title belt.
Handler’s outfit is the most impressive. He dons a custom five-foot wide hat bedazzled with a golden fence, a bucket of paint and light-up text that reads “FENCE PAINTER.”
He hands me his business card, which reads “FENCE PAINTER.”
“I’m a fence painter,” he explains.
2:50 p.m. — After a long wait for lunch at Curly’s Pub in the Atrium (Nick spilled ketchup on his white Jordy Nelson jersey), we head over to the south end zone expansion for a self-guided tour — owners only. The new suites are quite posh and belie the legendary Lambeau Field ideal of freezing one’s buttocks off in the bleachers.
The upper-deck seats are more to our taste, with a vantage point that stretches almost to the top of the lights on the west side of the stadium. For the first time, Packers fans will be able to peer out of the stadium and see Green Bay (the body of water) as they watch mini-versions of Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews winning games on the turf below.
4:34 p.m. — We grab some excellent items at the Pro Shop (Earmuff-flap hats! Packers flasks! Cool!) and walk back to the car for the long ride home.
Happy with the day’s adventures, and content with our team’s future, we ride down Lombardi Boulevard and into the sunset, just three NFL owners carpooling in a 1998 Volvo S-70.


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3 Feb 2020 by Staff - Water Diplomat
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Central African Republic where conflict has caused over 600,000 internal displacement and an additional 600,000 to seek refuge from conflict in neighbouring countries.
Zambia where 2.3 million people are in urgent need of food assistance as a result of rising temperatures and recurring and prolonged droughts.
Burundi where prolonged political insecurity and high levels of poverty create a fragile environment to address natural disasters, population movements, malaria epidemics and the risk of Ebola.
Eritrea where a severe drought in 2019 following an above average dry year in 2018 now worsens the situation as further crop failures lead to food insecurity and malnourishment in wide parts of the population. Nomadic communities are especially vulnerable to natural disasters such as drought and flooding during rainy seasons.
DPR Korea where approximately 11 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance for basic food, health, water, sanitation and hygiene needs. According to UN estimates about 43 percent of the population is undernourished as food production fails to meet requirements due to lack of modern equipment and cyclical heatwaves, droughts and floods.
Kenya where more than 1.1 million people live without regular access to food and more than 500,000 children under five are in need of treatment for malnutrition. Continuing dry conditions have led to the deterioration of livestock and crop productivity, higher food prices and a decrease of water. Agricultural production has halved according to estimates. When there is not too little rainfall, there is far too much.
Burkina Faso which has been marked by years of protracted political instability resulting from security challenges, a power vacuum, weak governance and the presence of armed groups. Additionally, the country is extremely poor and suffers from high levels of economic inequality and agricultural deficits largely due to insecurity.
Ethiopia which faced multiple challenges in 2019: there was a drought in the eastern and south-eastern parts of the country, localised flooding, as well as the significant humanitarian and recovery needs of internally displaced people, refugees, returnees and host communities.
The Lake Chad Basin (including Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria) has faced 10 years of conflict and violence, poverty, hunger, displacement while the sinking water levels of the lake have led to nearly 10 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. In Chad, about 657,000 displaced are in need of help. In addition, thousands of refugees from the Central African Republic and from Sudan have sought refuge in Chad.
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Tim Cornwell- NRAO/Socorro
The third release of the AIPS++ package will be made on November 13 at the ADASS meeting in Boston. This release has many new features aimed at scientific completeness. The most notable improvement is the ability to process VLA observations entirely in AIPS++, from VLA archive tape to final deconvolved image. Advances have been made in many different areas of synthesis processing:
Filling from a vla archive tape can be performed using the vlafiller tool.
Flagging can be performed either interactively with visplot or in a batch mode using flagger.
Calibration, including both flux scale and phase determination can be performed using the calibrater tool.
Imaging, including many variants of deconvolution, can be performed using the imager tool.
In addition, numerous aspects of the user interface have been improved. We have been aided in this by a group of dedicated (and persistent!) testers in Socorro. The testers (Debra Shepherd, Greg Taylor, and Steve Myers) have worked closely with the AIPS++ group to improve all areas of the processing of VLA data. There still remains some work to be done in making the end-to-end path for VLA data as easy to use as possible. For example, an improved chapter for Getting Results in AIPS++ is in preparation. Another examples is that we have been experimenting with vertical integration of the synthesis tools into one tool called map. Improvements in these areas will be made available as patches to the new release as they become available.
The single dish processing environment, dish, has also seen significant improvements. Bob Garwood converted the data access mechanism (the "sditerator") to use a MeasurementSet in addition to the flat table previously used. In addition to spending eight weeks in National Guard training, Joe McMullin modified the interface of dish to be fundamentally command line based. A very detailed description of the use of dish is given in the Dish User's Manual (AIPS++ Note 236).
We have changed the format of the CDROM for this release. AIPS++ can no longer be run from the CDROM but instead must be installed to a disk. This has enabled the two distributions (Linux and Solaris) to be placed on one CDROM, saving considerable copying and distribution costs.
Finally, I would like to highlight some of the recent documents in the AIPS++ Notes series. The Notes series is used to document many different things. Designs of major packages are often written as a Note. The work planned for a development cycle is documented as a Note. Some recent examples are:
In the development cycle leading to this third release, we completed a carefully planned change to a revised version of the observational data format used in AIPS++: the MeasurementSet. This second version of the format has been designed to rectify some shortcomings in the first version, but also to better support a wider range of observations, including single dish, VLBI, and optical interferometry. In putting together this definition, we benefited from extensive discussions with a number of people throughout the various astronomical communities. The definition of the MeasurementSet is available at AIPS++ Note 229, and a summary of the key changes can be found in the MeasurementSet Version 2.0 article in this Newsletter.
The AIPS++ Measures system is a set of C++ classes and glish tools that handle measurements with units, coordinates, and reference frames. The Measures system is documented in the C++ header files (as is our standard practice) and in the User Reference Manual. A programmers guide to using the C++ classes is found in AIPS++ Note 233.
Throughout its history, AIPS++ has benefited from a number of software engineering practices. Those interested in the type of practices that we have found to be useful may find a detailed description in AIPS++ Note 237.
The Display Library is one of the most important packages within AIPS++. It is designed to provide display capabilities for all types of data within AIPS++. Originally designed and partially implemented by Tom Oosterloo and John Pixton, it has been filled out and extended by David Barnes. An excellent description of the design, implementation, and use of the Display Library is found in AIPS++ Note 231.
Tim Cornwell
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The African American Experience: Fight for Your Rights (Ages 9 and Up)
The current racist events in the U.S. and protests against them is the latest part of a long history of Black American fights for rights. This list offers stories from Post-Civil War America to now in an attempt to show just how fundamental and fierce this struggle remains to the African-American experience.
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree
From Slaves to Soldiers by Joanne Randolph
The period of time including the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States was an era that involved a lot of change. For many African Americans, this transition included going from a life of slavery to becoming a soldier
Hearth Streetcar to Justice; How Elizabeth Jennings won the Right to Ride in New York City by Amy Hill Hearth
In 1854, a young African American woman named Elizabeth Jennings won a major victory against a New York City streetcar company, a first step in the process of desegregating public transportation in Manhattan.
Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song by Gary Golio
Discover how two outsiders- Billie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants- combined their talents to create a song that challenged racism and paved the way for the civil rights movement
What Were the Negro Leagues? By Varian Johnson
Introduces the Negro Leagues of baseball, highlighting the players, coaches, owners, and teams that dominated the leagues during the 1930s and 1940s.
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
How High the Moon by Karyn Parsons
Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes’ poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement by Teri Kanefield
Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager who used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause. In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated high school, Barbara Johns led a walkout–the first public protest of its kind demanding racial equality in the U.S.–jumpstarting the American civil rights movement.
A Sky Full of Stars by Linda Williams Jackson
In Stillwater, Missippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce
In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African-American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee.
Night on Fire by Ronald Kidd
“Personally I don’t mind them coming here but they might bother some of my customers.” Thirteen-year old Billie Sims has heard things like this all her life, from the grocer down the road, from her neighbors at church, from her parents. But Billie never understood what all the fuss was about. Why do blacks and whites have separate entrances to the bus station in her town of Anniston, Alabama? Why can’t her friend Jarmaine, have a milk shake with her at Wikle’s? When Billie hears about a group calling themselves the Freedom Riders passing through Anniston to protest segregation on buses, she thinks change could be coming. But instead of embracing change, Billie’s town responds with violence, and she finds herself at Forsyth & Sons Grocery watching a bus burn. Shocked by the actions of people she thought she knew, she realizes that freedom has a cost. But is she brave enough to stand up and fight for it?
The March on Washington by Bonnie Bader
In 1933, people from all over the country came together calling for equal rights for African Americans. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a peaceful protest and the setting for Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream’ speech. Learn about the inspiring people and incredible acts of courage that led to this historic moment.
Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory’s town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
Revolution: A Novel by Deborah Wiles
It’s 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny’s town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn’t much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: the Sanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan
In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city’s refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for higher pay and safer working conditions, sanitation workers went on strike.
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
Presents a collage-illustrated treasury of poems and spirituals inspired by the life and work of civil rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer.
Armstrong & Charlie by Steven Frank
During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s
Love Like Sky by Leslie Youngblood
Eleven-year-old Georgie is still adjusting to leaving Atlanta for a small town, having a stepfather, and being unable to get close to her stepsister when her six-year-old sister, Peaches, suddenly becomes very ill.
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee
After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum, she is forced to choose between her education and her identity.
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Tacticus, War of Will favorites at Belmont Stakes
A general view of horses and Exercise Riders walking along the horse path to enter the track for training prior to the 151st running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park on June 06, 2019 in Elmont, New York. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Trainer Todd Pletcher, always dangerous in the Belmont Stakes, sends out a pair of long shots Saturday in the final leg of the Triple Crown.
The focus of attention will fall on two other horses -- Tacitus, the 9-5 favorite, and War of Will, the Preakness winner and the close second choice at 2-1.
Bettors who ignore Pletcher do so at their peril. Pletcher's duo this year includes Spinoff, 15-1 after finishing 18th in the Kentucky Derby, and the lightly-raced Intrepid Heart at 10-1.
Pletcher owns three Belmont wins: the filly Rags to Riches (2007), Palace Malice (2013) and Tapwrit (2017).
None were favored in the wagering, ranging in price from 4-1 on Rags to Riches up to 13-1 for Palace Malice's upset.
Even when he doesn't win, Pletcher often lands a piece of the action. Since sending out his first Belmont runner in 2000, Pletcher has been second five times and three times finished third in the 1 1/2 mile race.
Belmont Park is Pletcher's base of operation, and he targets this race. Like most trainers who develop 3-year-olds, Pletcher takes aim first at the Kentucky Derby. When that doesn't pan out, Pletcher immediately turns his attention to the Belmont.
"It's a race we really cherish," Pletcher said.
"It's home for us. I think one of the advantages is most of our horses have trained five weeks at Belmont after the Derby. It helps, and it's a race we really enjoy."
Pletcher's best Belmont hope this time probably rests with Intrepid Heart, running for only the fourth time. The gray colt stumbled at the start of his most recent outing, the Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont, and ran third as the even-money favorite in his first career loss.
"We were disappointed in the outcome of the race for sure because going in he had a big chance to win," Pletcher said.
He will make an equipment change, adding blinkers to narrow Intrepid Heart's field of vision. Blinkers often help improve focus by screening distractions. Intrepid Heart should be acclimated, having worn the blinkers in his last two workouts.
As for Spinoff, Pletcher blames the poor effort on the sloppy track on Derby Day.
"The horse has trained, to me, consistently with some of the horses we've run in the Belmont over the years that have performed well," Pletcher said.
"I'm hoping he catches a fast track and gets to prove how good he is, or is not." In the end, it comes to down to hoping the home-field advantage again comes into play for the seven-time Eclipse Award winner as Outstanding Trainer.
"I think you can make that argument from the standpoint of training on a mile and a half track," Pletcher said. "Getting accustomed to that can be helpful."


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UK to face food, fuel, drug shortages
Posted by News Express | 19 August 2019 | 794 times
•British PM Boris Johnson
Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, according to leaked official documents reported by the Sunday Times whose interpretation was immediately contested by ministers.
Setting out a vision of jammed ports, public protests and widespread disruption, the paper said the forecasts compiled by the Cabinet Office set out the most likely aftershocks of a no-deal Brexit rather than the worst-case scenarios.
But Michael Gove, the minister in charge of coordinating “no-deal” preparations, challenged that interpretation, saying the documents did set out a worst-case scenario and that planning had been accelerated in the last three weeks.
The Times said up to 85% of lorries using the main Channel crossings may not be ready for French customs, meaning disruption at ports would potentially last up to three months before the flow of traffic improved.
The government also believes a hard border between the British province of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, an EU member, will be likely as plans to avoid widespread checks will prove unsustainable, the Times said.
“Compiled this month by the Cabinet Office under the codename Operation Yellowhammer, the dossier offers a rare glimpse into the covert planning being carried out by the government to avert a catastrophic collapse in the nation’s infrastructure,” the Times reported.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said it did not comment on leaked documents. But Gove said it was an old document that did not reflect current preparedness.
“It is the case, as everyone knows, that if we do have a no-deal exit there will inevitably be some disruption, some bumps in the road. That’s why we want a deal,” Gove told reporters.
“But it is also the case that the UK government is far more prepared now than it was in the past, and it’s also important for people to recognise that what’s being described in these documents… is emphatically a worst-case scenario,” Gove added.
A government source blamed the leak on an unnamed former minister who wanted to influence negotiations with the EU.
“This document is from when ministers were blocking what needed to be done to get ready to leave and the funds were not available,” said the source, who declined to be named. “It has been deliberately leaked by a former minister in an attempt to influence discussions with EU leaders.” (NAN)
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