Check out “The Sweetest Land” op-doc

My Central Connecticut State University colleague Jeff Teitler has been working on a documentary at Hartford’s violence for six years. Check out the display at Mother Courant.

Come meet some awesome historians at CCSU

Friends of the Burritt Library are hosting a Making Historians @CCSU event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1 at CCSU. I’m moderating, and just from the conversations we’ve had about the evening already, it should be interesting. Come! The event is free, but check the Making Historians link on how to register.

Should 40 hours be sufficient?

Bernie Sanders put this on Twitter yesterday: If you work 40 hours a week, you have a right not to live in poverty. I just started teaching COMM 345 at Central Connecticut State University on Monday afternoon. It’s a writing course where we explore wealth/income inequality through the prism of race. We’ll be discussing this …

So where will we be when Baltimore “calms down?”

Back to “business as usual?” Back to an unquiet calm that’s waiting for the next indecent shooting, the next wrong traffic stop, the next harassment? (For the broader view, read this by the great Ta-Nehisi Coates, of The Atlantic, and this year’s Stowe Prize winner. He writes, of his watching his native city: Now, tonight, …