Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill

Hey come work with me as a Curator of Popular Culture at my museum. You get to have all the fun and I'll hold down the buzzkill/hard history side of things... as always.

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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Join us today at 3pm on Zoom for an interesting conversation on some of the new spaces and settings where developing community, cultivating sacred experience, and practicing ritual exist outside of houses of worship. Register here: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...

"In a statement, Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the charges against Lucas and her co-defendants 'reveal the behavior of a public servant who will put her own financial interests before the people she was elected to serve.'" wut?

It's 1848 all over again... students taking on entire Kingdoms (Biological) on the Continent.

There have, of course, been times in human history that were even darker and more terrible. But never, it seems, have there been times so despicable and, above all, so stupid.

Terry McLaurin out for the season and probably done as a Commander. I can't... Love that guy.

Library of Virginia Completes Five-Year Effort to Digitize 99 ‘Free Negro Registers’ for Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative (via #LibraryofVirginia) www.lva.virginia.gov/about/news/p... #ushistory #digitalcollections #digitization

Oh no

With all due respect, no.

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As best as I can tell, this is the corner of Brook Road and Duval Street in Jackson Ward. This site is a vacant corner lot but the Eco Flats building is to the right rear in this photo. The brick row in the back on the other side of the street was a victim of the interstate.

yep

Just found a dude born in 1832 named Commadore Perry Berry (is it is spelled wrong). Went by C.P. Berry, apparently.

effing Dan Quinn and the effing commanders I mean come ON

this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings

FYI the Richmond Folk Fest livestreams here.

Relevant

Bush-era culture created a bunch of terrorists.

VMFA returned an 1840 work by enslaved potter David Drake to his descendants, then paid $679,000 to buy it back for public display.

“I, John Brown, am now quite certain, that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood.”

Operation Cue

This is fascinating. I think more density would help all of my favorite things about this city. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a809...

As someone who studies Confederates and other southern white supremacists.... YES!

(Don't really do this often... but today seems like the day...) My book, the racial history of one congregation in Richmond, Virginia and how history and memory works and stops working over time... can still be had...

OMG busted

Here it is this afternoon. I couldn’t get the same angle because of that truck, but I was able to get the old phone booth.

Legitimately fucking insane. I hate hate heresy hunting but this is heresy