Apr 4, 2021 | Memory, News & Events
La-tee-da Are you well pleased Mr. Some-kind-of-sicko, Anointed squasher of humanity. Squeezer of life blood arteries. Bare down. Full weight. See what happens… cracks or splats like black shellbug on pavement. Looks like you were whistling in your...
Jun 29, 2020 | History, Memory, News & Events
Last week, Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., gave a moving speech at the funeral of Rayshard Brooks who was shot by a police officer on June 12 in a Wendy’s parking lot in Atlanta. In a funeral which heeded COVID19 guidelines, she referenced...
Jun 22, 2020 | History, Memory, News & Events
Happy Juneteenth Baileyblog readers! As those of you who have been with us from the beginning know, we have been celebrating Juneteenth every year since our founding 3 and a half years ago. Everything about our mission has been to look at where history and memory...
May 31, 2020 | History, Memory, News & Events
Martin Luther King Jr and Fannie Lou Hamer This week was a week of pain and tears. To watch a fellow human being crushed to death in real time as bystanders begged for his life is a pain that no words can truly describe…. but still, I have hope. As some of you know, I...