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Cool News from McConville, Tyson and Newton

David McConville is back from Sao Paolo where he attended the Planetary Collegium. He sends a link that describes what’s doing on at the Collegium — it’s in Flash so I can’t link within the pages well… David and his dome will be at the AGU Meetings next week. As Sally and a lot of […]

Tyson, Doctorow, Kearns Goodwin on Race and the South

Wisconsin Public Radio’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge” carried a supershow on the South and Race. It ran today, but you can still get the show from their website. SEGMENT 1: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winning historian and the author of “A Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” talks with […]

Tyson Interview – Feb 15

WUNC did a new interview with Blood Done Sign My Name author, Tim Tyson, yesterday. I didn’t get to hear it (yet), but it’s in the archives and available in MP3 (go in about 12 minutes unless you’d like to listen to Congressman Mel Watt). I’ve written quite a bit about Tyson and Blood Done […]

Friends in the News

Ibiblio alum Kevin Gamiel gets a story on Slashdot as he alerts us all that Obama is looking for LAMP programmers. J-school colleague, Leroy Towns, writes a longish, informative and opinionated piece in the News and Observer about the roles of Public Information Officers handling elected officials. Roger McGuinn releases a 22 song CD of […]

The South in Black and White

Tim Tyson will be leading a course through the Center for Documentary Studies called “The South in Black and White” to be held January 16 – April 24, 2007 Tuesdays 7:00 – 9:30 PM at the Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, North Carolina. The class is open to the general public and […]

Race and Roll for February

Tim Tyson talked with Frank Stasio on WUNC’s the State of Things on “Black History You Don’t Know” yesterday. I’m listening to the show via podcast [XML]. You can get it that way too or via download from the TSOT archives (hosted by ibiblio.org). Among other things discussed throughout: Why the Klan feared and fears […]

Blood Done Discussion 2

Now at Tim Tyson’s talk that is a closeout to the Campus Reads a Book program. Tim introduced by director of the Stone African-American Culture Center. “Mercy” says Tim. Tim talks about the number of Methodist and Free Will Baptist preachers in his family. He introduces his parents and also Eddie McCoy who we all […]

Blood Done Discussion

At one of the many discussions at UNC of Tim Tyson’s Blood Done Sign My Name. This is not a discussion of undergrads, but one of graduate students and faculty. Since this is not exactly a private discussion but it is not exactly a public discussion either, I’ll be broad in my remarks. Coordinator Dr. […]

Mighty Times: Children’s March

This year the winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject was “Mighty Times: The Children’s March.” The showing in Carrboro at the Century Center tonight followed closely the burning of three large Klan-style crosses in nearby Durham. The Carrboro showing was very very well attended the Century Center filled to near overflow. […]

Blood Done Sign My Name (orangepolitics.org version)

William F. Winter former governor of Mississippi recently reminded the Seminar for Southern Legislators that 1970 was a watershed year. “[A] remarkable group of so-called New South governors had been elected across the South. Running on platforms promoting racial equity, educational quality and economic development, they brought a new tone to the political arena which […]

UNC Summer Reading – Blood Done Sign My Name

The Summer Reading Committee has just reported in. The choice for incoming students and the UNC community for the Summer of 2005 is Tim Tyson‘s Blood Done Sign My Name. I’ve written a lot about Tim and the book and about the NPR and UNC State of Things shows on the topic. The UNC announcement […]

Blood, Mountains, Pi and Ghost Ship

I have read all of the four books selected or under consideration for the three local let’s-read-a-book-together programs. Not only that I’ve met three of the authors and I go a long ways back with two of them. In fact, I’ve written here about two of them and their authors. (just establishing my credentials). My […]

Blood on Our Air

Whilst looking through the State of Things Archives, I found the Tim Tyson show that Susan Davis wrote me about. You can find it too here. I’m not sure whether it ran twice, there are two air dates as you will see below: Blood Done Sign My Name Air Date: 8/1/2004 Original Air Date: May […]

Not on Our Air

This morning the NPR show Morning Edition aired a show about the 1970 racially motivated murder in Oxford, NC documented in Tim Tyson’s book, Blood Done Sign My Name. The show didn’t run in NC’s largest and broadest NPR market, our own WUNC. Instead, WUNC took a fundraising break during the one segment that most […]

Some day the tale of this week may be told

But not now and not by me. I did get it take a break at lunch and hear bluesman Cool John Ferguson play in the lovely sitting room of the Johnson Center for Undergraduate Excellence today. And yesterday took in Tim Tyson’s more public reading from his Blood Done Sign My Name at the Bull’s […]

Blood Done Sign My Name – loose connections

Last night I was lucky enough to meet historian Tim Tyson author of Blood Done Sign My Name. He’s at the National Humanities Center this year and staying just a block away from my house. In many ways, he’s always been about a block away. Turns out that had I known several of the people […]

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