David Cochran
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David Cochran
@dcochran1004.bsky.social
Historian, teacher, author, ailurophile, husband, father, grandfather, lapsed pastafarian, premature antifascist, Black Lives Matter.
Anti-fascist Friday.
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Don Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995)
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Chinua Achebe (November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013)
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Anti-fascist Friday.
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Mose Allison (November 11, 1927 - November 15, 2016).
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Anti-fascist Friday.

During a July 1963 demonstration in Cambridge, Maryland, Gloria Richardson stood between demonstrators and National Guardsmen and pushed away the Guard’s bayonet.
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Anti-fascist Friday.
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My grandson Leonard is the mascot for the Instagram page of The Fioretti, the Marion University student literary magazine.
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Clifford Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956)
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Otis and Gillian wish everyone a happy National Black Cat Day.
October 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Anti-fascist Friday.
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993)
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Anti-fascist Friday.
October 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

Oscar Wilde, October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900.

This is a photo my wife and I took in our small Southern Illinois hometown several years ago. As you can see, our hometown is an irony-free zone.
October 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Miles Davis, Monterey Jazz Fedtival, 1964. Photograph by Jim Marshall.
October 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thelonious Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982). Photo by Kwame Braithwaite, 1959.
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Anti-fascist Friday.

Masked ICE agent sprays Reverend David Black of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago in the face. October 7, 2025. Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.
October 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Otis, Gillian, and Greta striking poses.
October 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
John Lee Hooker
October 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Anti-fascist Friday.
October 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Bud Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966)
September 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Anti-fascist Friday.
September 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Sam Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011)
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM