Jo Freeman writes of Inaugural Flashbacks: "'Senator, are you ready to take the oath?' Mid 1960s ... Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s SCOPE project registered 253 Negroes in Newberry, SC. Two local Negroes decided to run for local office in the September primary." more »

Jo Freeman writes, "Monday was Martin Luther King Day; It was a good day to protest, even if there wasn’t anything to protest about: Celebrating 'The End of an Error,' the Raging Grannies sang to the crowd and Code Pink did the Can-Can, as in 'Yes We Can-Can End War, a take-off on 'Yes We Can'." more »

Jo Freeman writes, "The combination of the first African American elected President followed by Pete Seeger, the 89-year-old folksinger who had been convicted for 'contempt of Congress' in the year Obama was born, made one believe that the Sixties had triumphed after all." more »

Julia Sneden writes about Niggly Things, to drive us around the proverbial bend, like the lower corner of the TV frame used to promote next week's offerings. Kyra Sedgwick pops up like a leprechaun, crouched to spring, disrupting Casablanca, let alone Sc… more »