Elwood P. “Smitty” Smith retired two years ago last month.
http://www.phillynewmedia.com/smitty/
http://www.jimmacmillan.com/photoblog/2005/11/elwood-p-smith_17.html
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2002-08-22/cb.shtml
http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/11/smith.html
Photo of Elwood P. Smith during a party to celebrate his 85th birthday in 2005, while talking about his famed photograph of Black Panthers being strip-searched during a raid by Philadelphia Police in 1970, courtesy of Philly News Media.
Archive for December, 2007
Elwood P. Smith
Posted in Other People, tagged Journalists, Philadelphia Daily News on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ronald Reagan and racial politics
Posted in Political History on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A central requisite of my paper is trying to disentangle national and local politics as best I can.
Racial politics, however present in both forms, have to be more important in a city like Philadelphia, so much more diverse racially than the United States as a whole.
Last month, Paul Krugman wrote a commentary piece for the [...]
John Taylor
Posted in Other People, tagged Republican City Committee on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Photo courtesy of John Taylor’s page on State House of Representatives.
The other Tom Ferrick
Posted in Other People, tagged Tom Ferrick on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Interview: Eric Mayes, Philadelphia Tribune political reporter
Posted in Interviews, tagged Eric Mayes on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Photo of the faded historic marker the Philadelphia Tribune, the country’s oldest black newspaper, on the same building from which the paper still operates, in the 500-block of South 16th Street, courtesy of Waymarking.com, a site that seeks the forgotten stories of signage.
Interview: Randall Miller, St. Joseph’s University history professor
Posted in Interviews, tagged Academics, Randall Miller, St. Joseph's University on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today I interviewed Randall Miller, professor of history at St. Joseph’s University.
University professors
Posted in Interviews, tagged Academics on December 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Next week I am scheduled to interview Randall Miller, a history professor at St. Joseph’s University who takes particular interest in Philadelphia politics.
Photo courtesy of St. Joe’s Athletic Department.
Interview: Dave Glancey, former Democratic City chairman
Posted in Interviews, tagged Dave Glancey, Democratic City Committee on December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I sat down with Dave Glancey, former chairman of Philadelphia’s Democratic City Committee.
Photo from Feb. 2007 while Dave Glancey was still chair of the city’s Board of Revision of Taxes. Here he was speaking at a conference held at Temple University. He was explaining how full-value reassessment could set proper home values. His [...]
