Penny Patch, Panola County, MS. 1965. Photo by Tom Wakayama Guest Blogger: Penny Patch Lyndonville, Vermont “In 1962 I was a young white woman working as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Southwest Georgia. A brilliant young man named Charles Sherrod was our project director, my teacher and mentor. And during… Continue reading The Day the “Colored Sign” Walked Out
Month: September 2016
Not a Debate: A Disgrace
To quote Mark Singer of The New Yorker, Trump has achieved something remarkable: “an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.” Last night— at Hofstra University on Long Island—was the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the 2016 election. It’s too bad we can’t call what happened a debate.