Share
Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] I’m sitting here in the waiting room . . . waiting. I’m not good at doing this, especially if I reflect too long and hard on reasons for my waiting in the first place. My 32 teeth – give or take a few – those amazing…
Share
‘Cause he had timin’… A ticka-ticka-ticka good timin’ . . . – Jimmy Jones (1960) How often do our lives take a different twist because of a few seconds or minutes separating us from certain calamities on life’s thoroughfare?
Share
Clarence E. Peifer of Bridgewater will defuse any preconceived notions of how a person who turned 95 (on May 18 this year) should appear or act. Clarence moves at a slower pace these days, but gets around well. He wears a hearing aid but responds thoughtfully to questions. He recently passed another drivers’ test but…
Share
Thanksgiving Day is looming, and I’m salivating already. It’s a favorite holiday, for several reasons. Not only do we gather as a family to ask the Lord’s blessings and enjoy savory fare, but “wish lists” appear on our refrigerator door to help launch the festive yuletide season. At this giving-thanks time of year, I’m especially…
Share
Column by Jim Bishop Preface: A man, desperately searching for the “right” church, slipped into the back pew just as the congregation intoned with the worship leader, “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done.” “Thank goodness,” he exhaled, “I’ve found my crowd at last.” Whether an actual anecdote or not,…
Share
Today marks 60 years since the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, the first major step in dismantling the “separate but equal” doctrine that justified Jim Crow.
Share
I recently received a poem, “The New Jim Crows,” from an unlikely source: North Carolina Public Defender Danny Spiegel. Spiegel’s poem is an outpouring of the heartache and frustrations of his occupation, of how he is forced to bear witness to the damages of mass incarceration.
Share
The ACLU of Virginia sent Gov. Bob McDonnell a letter this week asking him to extend his new policy granting automatic restoration of voting rights to the largest number possible of those persons now disenfranchised by Virginia’s Jim Crow-era law permanently barring ex-felons from voting.
Share
A shadowy MAGA group is sending out mailers to Black voters in Virginia using imagery from 1960s era civil rights demonstrations urging the voters to vote against the congressional redistricting constitutional amendment.
Share
The Scott Beardsley appointment was the first realpolitik political test for Abigail Spanberger. The paper she turned in is coming back to her with red ink all over it, and a big fat F at the top.
