Thurgood! One-Man Play Starring Morpheus

Well, Lawrence Fishbourne to be more correct. He is starring in a one-man play in Washington, D.C. as the man who successfully argued the Brown v. Board Case at the Supreme Court. This civil rights icon is one of my heroes from U.S. history. I wish I was in D.C. to check it out!

Matrix Star Takes On Civil Rights Leader | NewsHour Extra: Video ClipBoard | PBS

The Gulf Oil Spill

The Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico - the worst in U.S. History is an environmental disaster that isn't going to stop any time soon.

A good place to start if you haven't followed the story very closely is at PBS NewsHour for Students article from May 31 - Largest Oil Spill in U.S. History Continues Despite Efforts to Stop the Leak

ProPublica has an entire page of stories, graphics, and background info on the spill.

Some of the latest from MSNBC on providing for those whose jobs and livelihoods have been effected by this disaster: U.S.: BP must get better, quicker on spill claims

The New York Times is reporting this morning that the cleanup may take years - I'm not surprised. Did anyone really think this was going to be a quick little project?

BTW, the Times also has a page devoted to the Oil Spill where they have gathered all of their stories, graphics, and multi-media. Check it out.

BP, the company that owns the well that is spewing gas and oil into the ocean is making an effort to hire local workers to help in the cleanup effort. By law, they can't hire undocumented workers, and the government is helping to screen workers for proper immigration status. Latina Lista, a news blog from a Latina perspective has this report on how well the Latino workers that have been hired are being treated.