Boston’s Underground Bus : WEIRD Public Transportation that’s not a Subway (Silver Line “BRT”)

The Silver Line of the MBTA is very unique in that upon entering the station and going through the turnstile, there is level which is served underground, but by buses. The Silver Line “Bus Rapid Transit” (“BRT”) is a trolley bus on rubber wheels that runs on electric power, and has a dedicated bus-way from the Boston South Station to Silver Line Way.

Recorded February 3, 2021

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Welcome! The Juneteenth Benefit for Afro-Mexicans in Costa Chica

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Why Do Terrence Malick’s Movies Look Like That?

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Terrence Malick has developed one of the most unique and distinctive visual styles in contemporary American cinema. In this video, I investigate the elements of this style and what the motivation behind it might be.

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0:00 A Hidden Director
1:26 Showing life in context
2:21 A polarizing approach
4:51 Elements of the style (challenge accepted Chris)
11:05 Editing can impact a “look”
12:30 Filmmaking as questioning
14:28 Forcing the viewer to connect the dots
15:44 Poetic and personal

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How ‘Zola’ Turned a Viral Twitter Thread Into a Movie

Five years after A’Ziah Wells King posted the Twitter thread known as #thestory — a tale of how a trip from Detroit to Tampa, Fla., to earn money stripping quickly devolved into a wild ride, featuring a kidnapping, a shooting, sex trafficking and a suicide attempt — the real-life “Zola” is celebrating the film adaptation’s debut.

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Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth

An historian explains the history and significance of the holiday.

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When American schoolchildren learn about chattel slavery in the US, we’re often told it ended with Abraham Lincoln’s signature on the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

But, as late as June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Texas were still held in bondage. On that date, the Federal troops entered the state and began to punish slave holders and former confederates who refused to obey the law.

“Juneteenth is a deeply emotional moment for enslaved people,” says historian Karlos K. Hill, of the University of Oklahoma.

In Texas and across the country, emancipated African Americans began celebrating annually, with parades, concerts, and picnics. “Being able to go wherever they want and being able to wander about; for enslaved people, it was an expression of their freedom,” says Hill. “Formerly enslaved people celebrating, in public, their newfound freedom, was an act of resistance.”

However, by 1877, the Federal government had largely abandoned the South. The lynching era— when hundreds of African Americans were killed by white mobs each year across the North and the South— began soon after.

Today, Dr. Hill says, commemorating Juneteenth is important for all Americans because it helps us see all the ways that slavery still shapes this country, including, as he says, “the desire to master and dominate black bodies.”

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Why celebrating Juneteenth is more important now than ever (P.R. Lockhart, Vox, 2018) https://ift.tt/2JQ9YUj

The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory (Karlos K. Hill, Cambridge University Press, 2016)

The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History (Karlos K. Hill and Dave Dodson, Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (Equal Justice Initiative, 2017) https://ift.tt/2YNchwk

The National Museum of African American History and Culture— online collection: https://ift.tt/3gI2XCy

Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives collections (Library of Congress) https://ift.tt/2NeqXPD

Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories (Library of Congress) https://ift.tt/314i9Um

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938 (Library of Congress) https://ift.tt/2zLntkx

African American Spirituals (Library of Congress) https://ift.tt/3cL5yKW

Florida Memory: State Library and Archives of Florida https://ift.tt/2Yd29Oi

New Georgia Encyclopedia (Georgia Humanities) https://ift.tt/37Q35LK

Austin History Center General Collection Photographs in The Portal to Texas History. University of North Texas Libraries. https://ift.tt/3dfPP43

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Nickie Tillery wins special election for School Board District 2

Nickie Tillery has won the special election in Muscogee County School Board District 2, defeating John “Bart” Steed 67.4% to 32.6%. Tillery will fill the remaining term of the late Mike Edmondson, who died on February 10, 2021 at the age of 66 from a brief fight with cancer.

This was Steed’s second attempt at the seat, last running in 2014 and ending up in third place behind John F. Thomas and then-incumbent John Wells, with Thomas ending up defeating Wells in a runoff. Steed owns and operates Kar Tunes Car Stereo and Lube Plus.

The seat will be on the ballot in circa June 2022.

weekend whiplash, five years ago

I still remember five years ago, when I had driven up to what is now South Fulton to the State of Black Sci-Fi Convention. I got to meet Milton Davis, Darrell Johnson, Balogun Ojetade and several others, and was especially glad that we had someone (Darrell) writing LGBT-inclusive Black-oriented speculative fiction, for youth and YA even! And that Milton is from Columbus! Quite an experience, was wishing I could come back for Sunday but that was out of the question.

Got back home, got to sleep, woke up and saw the news of a mass shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando the night before.

One of the worst mornings I’ve had in my life. Whiplash.