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• Take yourself there: Mavis Staples coming to LR for Central High performance

  Gospel and R&B singer and civil rights activist Mavis Staples, who has been inspiring fans with gospel-inflected freedom songs like "I'll Take You There" and "March Up Freedom's Highway" and the poignant "Oh What a Feeling" will come to Little Rock for the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of Central High.

• Klan's president

  Everything that Donald Trump does — make that everything that he says — is calculated to thrill his lustiest disciples. But he is discovering that what was brilliant for a politician is a miscalculation for a president, because it deepens the chasm between him and most Americans.

• On Charlottesville

  Watching the Charlottesville spectacle from halfway across the country, I confess that my first instinct was to raillery. Vanilla ISIS, somebody called this mob of would-be Nazis. A parade of love-deprived nerds marching bravely out of their parents' basements carrying tiki torches from Home Depot.

• Lynchings hidden in the history of the Hot Springs Confederate monument

  Hot Springs twice erupted into the kind of violence that has its roots in the issues left unresolved by the Civil War, and both times, it happened right where that monument to Confederate soldiers stands today.

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• Eclipse day. Woodstock?

  I was amused by the excitement of a NASA scientist over today's eclipse, as reported by CNN.

• Open line and Civil War update

  More Confederacy defenders were on hand in Bentonville against imagined threats to a one of hte Confederate statues put up long after the Civil War to spin a narrative about the noble Lost Cause.

• University of Texas removes Confederate statues

  Confederate statuary was removed overnight from a prominent spot on the University of Texas campus because they symbolize white supremacy and neo-Nazism, the university president said.

• Three dead in WLR

  Three dead in suspected double murder-suicide in West Little Rock.

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• Re: University of Texas removes Confederate statues

  • Pygface: When you start with spineless a$$a as Governor, we are not likely to see…

  • Posted by RYD
  • on August 21, 2017

• Re: Eclipse day. Woodstock?

  • Who knows, the eclipse today might even overshadow Confederate statues in the 24-hour news cycle.

  • Posted by plainjim
  • on August 21, 2017

• Re: Eclipse day. Woodstock?

  • Jake: Great musical choices! Wide range of decades and genres. Very cool!

  • Posted by YouWho
  • on August 21, 2017

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