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Ida B. Wells receives Pulitzer Prize citation. Her long-overdue recognition was for her groundbreaking coverage on lynching in the 1890s.
Adam Zyglis: Put on your mask.
Take Me Out of the Ballgame: the Decline in Participation and Identification of African-Americans in Baseball by Holly Prior.
Asking for a friend. DICKS: Do you need to be one to be a successful leader?
Last Week in Corruption and What’s Up With the Stock Market?
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: United States Post Service.
The country is witnessing his steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition and Zero-sum politics don’t work in a pandemic.
The Worlds of Kickstarter Comics, featuring 12 Kickstarter-funded tales.
How to Draw Disney characters by Eric Goldberg.
Do Marvel Masterworks Contain Comic Stories Redrawn By Modern Artists?
The Oatmeal: Finishing a project and Positive vibes.
Cracking the mystery of Don Mattingly’s birthday.
A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work.
Obits
Longtime comic book and TV writer Marty Pasko has died at the age of 65 and the coroner is saying “natural causes.”
Disco Percussion Pioneer Hamilton Bohannon Dead at 78, an influence on Talking Heads.
Dolphins Hall of Fame coach Don Shula dies at 90. 17-0 in 1972 (cf 18-1).
Betty Wright, US soul, funk and R&B singer, dies aged 66. She was the Cleanup Woman.
Now I Know
What’s the only US state with a four-syllable name that doesn’t border another US state with a four-syllable name? (Answer below)
Nebraska’s Fearless Maid and Shear Determination and The Belgian Grandmothers That Helped Win the War and The Illegal Onions That Go Great With Spaghetti and It’s Genuine, but is it Genuinely Good? and The Sandwich You Don’t Want to Eat.
Video: Why Does Pisa’s Tower Lean? (And How to Fix It)
MUSIC
Beautiful Song of the Week, going strong for 10 years!
Longest Time – Quarantine Edition – Phoenix Chamber Choir.
What A Wonderful World – GECA & Aubrey Logan
You Can’t Do That – MonaLisa Twins
Stranded In The Jungle – starring Big Daddy.
Any Wednesday – the Royal Guardsmen.
In the South overture, subtitled “Alassio – Edward Elgar.
Paradise Garage – Tim Curry.
Coverville: 1307: The 50th Anniversary of Let It Be and 1308: They Might Be Giants Cover Story II
K-Chuck Radio: The many hits of one-hit wonder Robin Ward.
Black folk musicians created the soundtrack for a movement—and helped Bob Dylan find his sound .
Answer: Indiana
Here’s my mom, Trudy, on the left, with a couple of other women from her church some years before she passed. She was always black and proud and often offended when people thought otherwise. More than one person asked if she had ever tried to pass as white; she was appalled.
