4 days ago by webmaster

There is no doubt that the burning of fossil fuels and the resulting carbon monoxide releases in our atmosphere are rapidly changing our planet’s ecosystem. However, there is a much more serious fossil fuel issue that has been almost completely ignored by scientists, environmentalists and politician ...

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4 days ago by Jim Tesch

When we hear a banjo, we can’t help but think of the blues. It also remind us of Dixieland and country music, but most definitely the blues. The blues and the banjo go hand in hand. There are many different types of banjos and though they are the same instrument, their sound is unique. The [...]

Baby Boomers Blues - theboomerblues.com · 1 reference

9 days ago by Stock Trading Tips

The world continues to deplete its base of arable land. Though it’s been going on for some time, the dramatic blows are only now showing their effect. In East and North Africa, in the plains of India all the way to Turkey, the story is the same. Some of it is just human carelessness about the land. ...

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11 days ago by DaleR

The Blues sub-genre sometimes referred to as Country Blues was a reflection of the lives of the people in the rural South. The ex-slaves were no longer under the legal ownership of the rich farm owners but they were just as much under their control. Sharecroppers found it hard to break even and rare ...

blues History - blueshistory.cluesandreviews.com

12 days ago

Long time ago now I remember Bob Dylan coming on stage and playing an electric guitar live in front of a [...]

Kids Electric Guitars - kidselectricguitars.net

13 days ago by Susan

Fred Hampton, Activist At 4am on December 4th, 1969, the FBI, working with the Chicago police department, assassinated Chicago Black Panther Party Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton in his bed as he slept. Along with the murder of Mark Clark in the same apartment that night, the "raid" was one in a long l ...

Mississippi Sovereignty ... - mississippisovereigntycommission.blogspot.com · Rank: 159,633 · 3 references

13 days ago by Susan

From Jackson, Medgar Evers worked quickly to try and pull the FBI into the Emmett Till murder investigation. In Chicago, the Public Defender formally asked the White House if it was going to become involved. At the same time, from the Delta, Dr. T.R.M. Howard went to work. Like many black journalist ...

Emmett Till Blog; Murder ... - emmett-till.blogspot.com · Rank: 130,788 · 5 references

15 days ago by Susan

A county courthouse in Mississippi -- read the slogan and "Believe It Or Not." I've been finishing the new book based on this blog, Who Killed Emmett Till? It's been a fascinating journey and one that has helped me remember some of the specific stories about our time spent in Mississippi. When writi ...

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16 days ago by kathyrhodes

I love traveling the backroads of Mississippi. The old narrow highways hold haunting images of what life was like back in the day I was a kid — old country stores with crooked screen doors and PURE Oil signs and empty gins and red dirt roads and kudzu and old family homes leaning to decay, smothered ...

FIRST DRAFT - kathyrhodes.wordpress.com · 13 references

17 days ago by Jim Tesch

Boogie-woogie is a popular style of Blues Music. It is a piano-based style from the early 20th century. It has a very strong bass pattern associated with and originally piano players accompanied themselves by playing this strong bass pattern with their left hand. Then a bass player was added and the ...

Baby Boomers Blues - theboomerblues.com · 1 reference