David L. Ulin is the editor of "Another City: Writing From Los Angeles" and "Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology." I first encountered Stagolee in a song by the Grateful Dead. It was 1978, and I ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The story of Stack-O-Lee—or Stack O’Lee or Stagger Lee or Stack A Lee depending on ...

2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 3 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities 4 PSYCHICS VS. SCIENCE Will Embark on Tour Across The U.S. STAGOLEE AND THE FUNERAL OF ...

Jimmy K and Katie Robertson began playing music together out of Starkville, Miss., in 2002. After years of touring the state, the duo migrated to Tennessee’s “Music City” in 2006 and incorporated a ...

Pictures of Black civil rights leaders pepper the forest green walls of the office on stage. The office bulletin board is haphazardly scattered with various community events. Papers littered over an ...

In 2007, the NAACP held a mock funeral for the N-word, symbolically burying one of the most hateful pieces of the English language. Demonstrators marched through the streets of Detroit, urging people ...

In""Stagolee,"" one of history's best-known blues songs, a dispute between Billy Lyons and a""bad man"" called Stagolee ends in a shooting; variations of the ballad have been recorded by hundreds of ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- There's a simple - and revealing - explanation as to why Stagolee's band T-shirt depicts a horse's head. The Nashville blues-rock quintet's two principal songwriters, Jimmy Kent ...

Timothy Eric, Ed Muth and Seth Carter Ramsey in Stagolee and the Funeral of a Dangerous Word at Main Stret Theater. Credit: Photo by Ricornel Productions “The N-Word has been around since 1619. It’s ...

In observation of Black Music Month, we are taking a look at one song that describes the events surrounding a 1895 murder in St. Louis. Different accounts of what happened have been passed down ...