Don Shirley was a piano prodigy and his passion was for classical music. But because of his race, 1950s America wanted him to stick to pop music.Marks_Records/eBayDon Shirley, as he appears on the cover of his self-titled album, 1957.
Everything in writer Nick Vallelonga’s upcoming film Green Book, he insists, is true. The film follows pianist Don Shirley and he travels through the Deep South in the era of Jim Crow and forms a friendship with his driver, white, Italian-American bouncer, Tony Lip. Read More...
Despite growing global acceptance and evidence that they reduce crime, conjugal visits are disappearing in the U.S. — here’s why.
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In pop culture and the public imagination, “conjugal visits” are a trope that tends toward either the lurid or the comic, conjuring up images of sex with prisoners and providing fodder for both porn and sitcoms. In reality, conjugal visits — which are now often known as “extended family visits” — exist around the world so that prisoners and their families can maintain healthy connections with one another. Read More...
1,235 square miles of preserved desert have been monitored by 8 personnel due to the shutdown, which has allowed visitors to essentially run wild through the park. GoodFreePhotosJoshua Tree National Park’s once pristine landscape.
The government shutdown has wrought an extensive range of misfortune on the country’s National Parks and for Joshua Tree National Park, that misfortune has come in the form of unruly visitors who drive illegally off-road, cut through campground chains and locks, and have even gone so far as to chop down the park’s much-cherished trees. Read More...
