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the wisdom of old men, not all of them dead

I learned while researching another story entirely that W.E.B. Du Bois was arrested for his anti-Korean War activism at age 83.

a few notes to start

I’d sworn off blogging after this graphomaniac exercise, but here we are. Today is typical. As I sit here, trying to sort out today’s work, between the transcription I need to finish for next week’s stories at the paper and my trip today to NYPL’s Schomburg Library, news old and new shouts for attention: TheContinue reading “a few notes to start”