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• Bring Rebecca Skloot and Henrietta Lacks (HeLa) to your town

  
  Terra Sigillata — Authority: 592
  Some readers may be aware that Rebecca Skloot is about to release her much-anticipated book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , a story that is about much more than the black Southern woman whose cervical cancer gave rise to the most famous human cancer cell line. (Crown, 2 Feb 2010, preorder here ). ...
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• LAST KIND WORDS BLUES

  
  DUTTY ARTZ — Authority: 126
  Geeshie Wiley – Last Kind Words Blues American Primitive, Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897 – 1939) I discovered Geeshie Wiley’s “Last Kind Words Blues” while reading a piece from Best Music Writing 2009 anthology – John Jerimiah Sullivan’s Unknown Bards (the blues becomes transparent about ...
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• Halloween Census Whacking

  
  GeneaBlogie — Authority: 414
  With the crisis of my father’s recent illness and the minor drama of my own, I feel like I’ve been way out of touch the last two weeks.  It’s time get back into the flow of things.   I thought  little census whacking for Halloween would ease my way back into writing.  So I went hunting for Vampires, Zombies, ...
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• Democracy Is Hard

  
  Blog Them Out of the Stone Age — Authority: 414
  Cross posted from Civil WarriorsLast week a group of historians met in Columbus to discuss the interpretive framework for Ohio’s observance of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. (The Ohio Historical Society organized the event; the Ohio Humanities Council sponsored it.) The first order of business was to offer our ...
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• October Maples

  
  Paintings of France, Italy and Beyond — Authority: 103
  When I woke up the other morning it was so stunning outside that I decided to leave the studio for a bit and do some plein air painting in my Bellevue neighborhood. Dave and I passed these gorgeous maples on Newport Drive during our walk in the ‘hood the previous evening and I made a mental note to check them out ...
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• WHEN THE GOING GETS ROUGH

  
  DUTTY ARTZ — Authority: 126
  Z-Ro feat. DJ Screw – Fondren & Main Epic, slow and heavy banger from a massive, sprawling mixtape prepared by the master and pioneer DJ Screw .
  3 weeks ago

• Delusional in Dixie?

  
  The Locust Fork News-Journal — Authority: 472
  Republican Party On the Outs, Except in the South Washington conventional wisdom has it that the Republican Party is in big trouble nationally, its brand tarnished, and that support for the GOP is now relegated to support from the least educated people in the country, the most hard core racist conservatives in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Review: Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South

  
  Acton Institute PowerBlog — Authority: 578
  Explaining the realignment of American Southern politics is often a favorite area of study among historians and scholars. A region that was once dominated by yellow dog Democrats , has for the most part continued to expand as a loyal region for the Grand Old Party. Among the earliest and most common narrative among ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jerry Siegel: Images from the Black Belt of the American South at Barbara Archer Gallery through Dec. 31, 2009

  
  Atlanta on the Cheap — Authority: 143
  The title alone caught my eye for this photography exhibition: “Jerry Siegel: Images from the Black Belt of the American South” will be on display at Barbara Archer Gallery through Dec. 31, 2009. Unfortunately, I’ll have to settle for the title for the time being, as the website offers precious few...
  3 weeks ago

• Unusual Thing That Just Happened In LA

  
  Life Spatula — Authority: 116
  Me: What just happened? LAPD Person: A guy shot this other guy... Me: O.O LAPD Person: ...and is now hiding on this block. Me: O.O LAPD Person: What is your business in this vicinity, maam? Me: I live in that building over there. LAPD Person: Ill refrain from asking why. Me: And yet I will think about the ...
  4 weeks ago

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