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The current flashback documentary  Summer of Soul reminded how few things were more ubiquitous on the radio 50-odd years ago than SF’s own Sly and the Family Stone, a fact obscured by his subsequent gradual retreat from public life. Definitely the ultimate sweaty seasonal party song is that act’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime,” something that finally seemed relevant again in Stone’s erstwhile hometown late last week. (Never mind that while I was writing this, the temperature had dipped...

BELLEVUE, WA – While the legacy media is quick to sensationalize every incident involving misuse of firearms, they just as quickly downplay or completely dismiss reports of lawful self-defense with firearms, and the Second Amendment Foundation is openly challenging the establishment press to explain why. “Why are the gun prohibition lobby and their bought and paid for politicians and media mouth pieces ignoring stories like this,” wondered SAF founder and Executive Vice President...

Toggle Sidebar Forthcoming—Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte (Rutgers Univresity Press) by Yveline Alexis will be on the shelves next month. Description: Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and  caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. The occupation lasted close to two ...

Alan Grants Moniaive Fights Back Comic on BBCs The One Show Alan Grants Moniaive Fights Back Comic on BBCs The One Show Posted on Alan Grant, writer on Judge Dredd and Batman, has just appeared on BBC Ones early evening magazine TV show, The One Show, to promote a very local comic book indeed. Entitled Monaieve Fights Back, its about Monaieve, the small Scottish village he lives in fighting back against the coronavirus and coping with shutdown. The BBC went down the stereotypical POW, BA...

By Viktor Katona - Mar 10, 2021, 1:00 PM CST Judging from recent headlines, Nigeria has unleashed one of the most spectacular legal attacks on one of its key oil and gas investors, to an extent previously unseen in the country’s more than 60 years of hydrocarbon production. Shell has been active in Nigeria ever since the African country opened up to international investment in the early 1960s, maintaining its position as one of the leading actors in its upstream segment, accounting for roughl...

When I first heard E. Yvonne Lewis tell the story, it was a hot July day in downtown Flint, Michigan. We and about 70 others had gathered in the high-ceilinged ballroom of the Northbank Center, just west of the river, where the Michigan Civil Rights Commission was conducting its 2016 hearings on how this Great Lakes city learned that its own water was a threat. Lewis, a community health worker and mother of three, testified that she kept a Crock-Pot in her bathroom. To take a bath, she filled t...

Former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder faces charges of willful neglect in the Flint water crisis. This article was originally published by ProPublica. It is republished here with permission. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When I first heard E. Yvonne Lewis tell the story, it was a hot July day in downtown Flint, Michigan. We and about 70 others had gathered in the high-ceilinged b...

The Unfinished Business Of Flint’s Water Crisis Criminal charges and a class-action settlement may seem like the last chapter in Flint’s story, but many of the most important reforms at the root of the city’s water crisis remain undone. FLINT, MI - JANUARY 23: The City of Flint Water Plant is illuminated by moonlight on January 23, 2016 in Flint, Michigan. A federal state of emergency has been declared in Flint due to dangerous levels of contamina....

It’s less than a week until Christmas descends on Airlineville, and the friendly residents are in a pensive mood. Instead of thinking about tomorrow, however, they’re taking the holidays to ponder a better time… some day in the future. It’s clear from their actions that those times will definitely not be coming in January or February. This was one of the more fascinating Cirium schedule loads in some time. We didn’t have to contend with the regular monthly tidal wave to which the r...