Tibetan Uprising Day
March 10 is Tibetan Uprising Day, marking the day in 1959 when thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace in Lhasa to protect the life of the Dalai Lama and […]
Category Archives: Cool History
Cool Day in History: Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913
Denise Oliver Velez sums up the importance of women marching for the vote 100 years ago: March 3, 1913, was a major milestone in the battle for women in the […]
Cool Day in History: The Tent of Dreams
A rare video of McPherson Occupiers raising the Tent of Dreams and placing it over the park’s central statue On Monday, January 30, 2012, Occupy DC erected a giant blue […]
Cool Day in History
On September 25, 1957, nine African-American students integrated a formerly all-white Arkansas high school after President Eisenhower sent the National Guard to protect them from the angry crowds. They became […]
Cool Day in History: May Day, 1886
“It was the very dawning of the day when the term ‘dignity of labor’ meant something.” -George E. McNeill, labor historian At a time when industrial wage slaves worked 10 […]
Cool Day in History: “We want bread and roses too”
International Women’s Day has its roots in the labor movement: On March 8, 1857, garment workers in New York City marched and picketed, demanding improved working conditions, a ten hour […]
Cool Hero of the Day: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech at Riverside Church, April 4, 1967 …the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, “Those who make peaceful revolution […]
Round up the Rats!
The District’s Department of Health and Mayor Vincent Gray think McPherson Park has a rat problem. Maybe Occupy DC should look into a Pied Piper solution. In 1964, when the […]
When Women Occupied Congress
“It was a great moment. But we lost it.” How could the largest gathering of women in America since the suffragettes be summed up with such a harsh appraisal? Yet […]
Under the Robe: Ignorance and Want in “A Christmas Carol”
As Ebenezer Scrooge passes through a gauntlet of four ghosts (including Jacob Marley) on the path of redemption, the takeaway is clear: be generous of spirit always, and especially during […]
