The February 2009 issue of Smithsonian has a wonderful article, “The Freedom Writers,” which discusses a photography book created in part as a tribute the 80 heroic men and women who in 1961 boarded buses and headed south to protest illegal segregation at interstate highway facilities. The book by writer and aspiring photographer Eric…
The Guardian has 49 front pages, including many from the United States. A few favorites (note the Wordle at the bottom of DeMorgen): USA Today couldn’t move it’s logo? Terrible.
The Readings section of the February 2009 Harper’s (subscription required) has an excerpt from Eula Biss’s “Time and Distance Overcome,” that struck me as appropriate reading for today, a day when the nation is celebrating the inauguration of the first African-American president and the school semester started with discussions about the future of communication…
During Obama’s address I remarked that in just a few minutes he had subtlely but substantially rewritten, recomposed what America was for the citizens of America and the world. The Wordle of his address bears that out: