statues The last time a Frederick Douglass statue was vandalized in Rochester, it was because of drunk college kids Thom Dunn
activism Activist Shaun King relaunching Frederick Douglass' abolitionist paper, North Star Rusty Blazenhoff
Angela Lansbury Angela Lansbury: Sexual harassment and rape are a woman's fault when she's too attractive Carla Sinclair
books Arkansas wants to ban all classroom mentions of Howard Zinn (teachers, get your free books!) Cory Doctorow
videos Frederick Douglass' "The Meaning of July the Fourth for the Negro," read by James Earl Jones Cory Doctorow
Culture Highlights from TED 2010, Thursday: "Shooting mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers" Mark Frauenfelder
politics Voices of a People's History of the United States: Fantastic voice actors read the historic work of people who demanded justice from America Cory Doctorow