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This is part of a series of books that have been influential in my life, going back to grade and high school and on to the present. It would be nice if these posts started a dialogue–what books influenced you, the reader, and why or how? I was a senior in high school when …
Sunday (Sept. 18) was the beginning of National Book Banning Week, so this is the first of a series of reminiscences about the influence of books in my life, something I have been thinking about for a long time. I don’t know if any of them have been banned, but each has been important …
A troubled boy artist rebels against his rule-obsessed principal by vowing to break every rule in the book with ingenious pranks while stopping a bad suitor after his mom.
A dying man estranged from his family decides to make a video for his unborn child and reconnects with the joy of life and his loved ones, even while dying.
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 1; L- 1; S/N -3. Running time: 1 hour 35 min. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 Athens tour guide …
This time in Part 8 of my Journal I start by mentioning our failure to draw students for a Freedom School–not everthing was successful– and then move on to describe our meeting with the most striking person that I have ever met, Fanny Lou Hamer. It was at a Freedom Rally in Cleveland, the county …
Continue reading “60th Anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, my journals, part 4”
For this 60th anniversary, the veteran film critic and author shares with us his journals from the historic Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
I have just finished reading Joy-Ann Reid’s new book MEDGAR & MYRLIE: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America–and can highly recommend it. I had known of the martyred NAACP leader even before I joined the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project way back in 1964. The three films in which he is portrayed greatly enhanced my …
When his estranged daughter hires a maid to help care for her aged father, she does not expect them to fall in love.
Gus dies so most of the family accept an invitation to return to his Greek home town & pass on his journal to his friends, with funny results.