Sublime

I typed the usual something: “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.” Or maybe it was the one about the quick brown fox jumping over the lazy sleeping dog, which uses all 26 letters of the alphabet. I don’t think I did “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs,” that printer’s darling, which uses the 26 letters more succin

Johnson’s voting record—a record twenty years long, dating back to his arrival in the House of Representatives in 1937 and continuing up to that very day—was consistent with the accent and the word. During those twenty years, he had never supported civil rights legislation—any civil rights legislation. In Senate and House alike, his record was an u

In Hamer’s vision, it was the onus of all Americans committed to social justice to address the unfinished work of democracy. “We need people to work for freedom, now! Not freedom tomorrow, but we want freedom now,” she declared.101 And

including the one at Loop College in Chicago in 1970, Hamer disclosed that one of the officers present that morning was S. L. Milam, the brother of one of the men who lynched fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in 1955.59 His presence at her home that morning was meant to terrify Hamer, sending a warning that her efforts to expand voting rights in the st

In 1977, a Senate committee led by George McGovern issued Dietary Goals for the United States, which would become the Dietary Guidelines for Americans that we know today. The report was driven and supported by the American Heart Association and many other respected parties. It promulgated low-fat guidelines primarily, despite questioning by some no

Everyone knew that this other child existed: books on how to choose a wet nurse actually advised parents to verify the health of a candidate by examining her newborn. A mother without a healthy infant had no credentials; her milk was automatically suspect. It was rare to hire a wet nurse whose baby had died. Her baby was supposed to die after she w