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Juneteenth celebrated across Texas
June 25, 2004GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – “Juneteenth,” which began on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, when General Gordon Granger of the Union Army gave a long-delayed reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, is now celebrated throughout the South...
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Kravitz learns lesson on voting
June 25, 2004Lenny Kravitz got a lot of flak last year for promoting a peace song via Rock the Vote when it turned out he hadn’t voted in over a decade. Since then, the rocker has changed his...
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U.S. govt threatens artist for Cuba travel
June 25, 2004Brock Satter, aka Bojah, bandleader of “spoken-soul-hop” fusion group Bojah and the Insurrection, received a letter from the U.S. Department of Treasury requesting information on his recent trip to Cuba and threatening penalties against him for...
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Film explores global rituals of dance and rhythm
June 25, 2004NEW YORK – Australian-based Luna Pictures will present the New York premiere screening of “Dances of Ecstasy” at the Knitting Factory on Wednesday, June 30, from 7:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Doors open at 7:30 with...
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Interview with Robert Meeropol: Bush and his cronies are so dangerous
June 25, 2004Robert Meeropol is the founder and executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC). Meeropol is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. In 1953, when he was 6 years old, the United States...
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