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The 2011 Alabama Book Festival

April 17, 2011

Despite the harrowing winds that followed Friday night’s severe storms, the Alabama Book Festival seemed to go pretty well yesterday. The festival, which is held…
Is April “the cruellest month”? Maybe to some people.

April 11, 2011

It’s National Poetry Month! So go read some freakin’ poetry. If you don’t want to read poetry, then go listen to some poetry; lots of…
Reading: “Radical Equations” by Robert Moses, Part Two

April 7, 2011

I am two chapters into section two of Radical Equations, the latter part of the Bob Moses’ book about his Algebra Project. In the 1980s,…
50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides

April 4, 2011

We are nearing the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Rides that tested segregation laws in the South and made the actual implementation of the…