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Jo Freeman Reviews Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
On August 18, 1966, I was a civil rights worker in Mississippi when the Jackson Daily News devoted two-thirds of an editorial page to outing me as a "professional agitator" with Communist associations. Over 30 years later I learned that this material was prepared by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, an official agency using taxpayer money to preserve white supremacy in Mississippi. more »
New Year's Peeve!
When I was young, I hated New Year’s — the whole shebang, beginning with New Year’s Eve. The forced gaiety. The pressure to be happy! It was all so depressing. The worst part was that if I didn’t have a date for New Year’s Eve, it cast a pall on the next twelve months. more »
Sonia Sotomayor Communicates Without Doubt
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is not afraid of running a "hot bench" and routinely asks many questions of lawyers who come before the Supreme Court. That was certainly true in November when Carter G. Phillips represented the State of California a… more »
An Annual Treat — Goosed
Christmas at our house is nothing if not traditional. The decorations and timing of our Yuletide celebrations almost never vary, referred to as "the same old Christmas;" same, that is, except for those years when fate takes a hand. more »
