Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
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The Flying Ace Capt. Billy Stokes, a World War I pilot known as the Flying Ace, returns home a hero and resumes his former job as a railroad detective. His first task is to solve the mystery of a missing payroll age...

There were hundreds, possibly thousands, of films shot in Jacksonville during its peak filmmaking decade, and I definitely can’t speak to them all. But I’d say our best known classic is Norman Studios’s The Flying Ace: www.loc.gov/item/2021604...

a woman is sitting in a chair holding a newspaper and laughing . Alt: a woman is sitting in a chair holding a newspaper and squeeing in joy

(And can I just mention how excited I am to see you mention something shot here? Total fangirl moment.)

The Southern Movie Mecca, Part 2 Podcast Episode · Bygone Jax: Our Unsung History · EP2 · 39m

This is one of a spate of Civil War films shot here in Jacksonville by the Kalem Company. We did a whole podcast episode on how they supported the Lost Cause - up to and including helping fundraise for a Confederate Veterans Reunion. If you’re interested: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

An editorial cartoon of MLK standing in front of chaos and wreckage with the words, "I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow"

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

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OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Cartoon of a hooded klansman grabbing a shocked Uncle Sam by the lapel, pointing to the U.S. capitol, saying “Listen! I want that building for my private office!”

thread of anti-klan cartoons from 100+ years ago

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“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”