UNDERNEWS: Links: Washington DC

July 6, 2015

Until 2009, the Progressive Review was published in Washington, DC. Here are some interesting links

DC FACTS	DC STORIES
SEX & POLITICS IN DC	DC BLACK HISTORY
DC STATEHOOD	MARION BARRY

DC MOMENTS: A timeline
ESSAYS ON DC
DC HISTORY
DC BLACK HISTORY
DC ALMANAC
DC STATISTICS
CONVERSATION
LAST CALL: LEAVING DC
DC QUOTES
TUNES FROM A DC MUSICAL: Sam & Kathy Smith, along with Becky Brown, wrote a musical revue of DC history that was performed by the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop in 1978. The Washington Times listed the show as one of the "Sure Things" for the week. Years later Sam made a rough recording of some of the tunes for a curiuous reporter.
THE ATTICA THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN One year after Attica, there was a prisoner revolt at the Washington, DC Jail during which the director of DC Corrections and a number of guards were taken hostage. But, unlike Attica, no one was killed. Perhaps this is why so few remember what happened on a night when judges, politicians, U.S. Marshals, prisoners, and hostages all gathered in Courtroom 16 to see what could be done - brought together by a single judge who wasn't afraid o talk when others wanted to shoot.

1950s

THE CANARIES IN STUDIO A in which a young radio reporter learns a lot about Washington

1960s & 1970s

SEEDS The 60s before they became the 60s
HOW THE TROUBLE BEGAN: A long adventure in alternative journalism began in the mid-sixties
FIRE: The Washington riots and other suspensions of hope
PLACE: The battle for local power
DC DIARY: THE 60s & 70s
CAPITOL HILL IN THE 60s A joint lecture by Kathy and Sam Smith. Kathy's talk Sam's talk
POLICE RIOT OF MAY 1971

1980s & 1990s

DC DIARY: THE 80s
DC DIARY: THE 90s
THE LONELIEST MILE IN TOWN: An adventure in apostasy -- drinking upstream from the Clinton herd

The new century

DC DIARY: A NEW CENTURY

Neighborhoods

NO DREAMS ON H STREET
TALES OF THE HILL - Excerpts from the memoirs containg stories about Capitol Hill in the 1950s and 1960s.
BIRTH OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSIONS

People

The Petey Greene story on film
BARRY, MARION
ELIAN COMES TO THE 'HOOD
HOBSON, JULIUS: Hobson tells what he would tell the maker if there turns out there is one

DC Statehood

Other

ABOUT THE EDITOR

The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review and its predecessors since 1964, wrote four books, been published in five anthologies, helped to start five organizations (including the DC Humanities Council and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three successful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades.

A truly independent journalist with his feet firmly grounded in the reality of neighborhoods and everyday people. -- Patrick Mazza, Progressive Populist

A truly original voice in American journalism: humorous and plain spoken and filled with common sense -- Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader

Inimitable -- Mother Jones Magazine

Sam's a cynical cat -- Marion Barry

Sam's one of the few independent voices left. The press today is either extreme or special interest or else just establishment, an extension of the corporate spirit -- Sen. Eugene McCarthy,

One of a small group of whites with whom many blacks would trust their political lives - Chuck Stone, Washingtonian.

A reputation for wit, intelligence and anger. -- Claude Lewis, Chicago Tribune

Smith is an island of reason and information in a sea of narcissistic blather. -- City Paper, Washington

Whatever the debate, the Review's sharp critiques encourage us to look out our window, notice and act upon what we see, and also to look further -- to the rest of the country and globe -- to see how the organized big world interacts with our more spontaneous small worlds. - Utne Reader

July 6, 2015

Links: Washington DC

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