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Public access networks hold conference

April 18, 2003

NEW YORK – As its contribution to Media Democracy Week, the Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), hosted a conference titled “Media Democracy: Where it’s Headed.” The three-day conference focused on topics dealing with media and media access....

The artists choice: freedom or slavery

April 11, 2003

Paul Robeson was born April 9, 1898. Robeson, often refered to as the “tallest tree in the forest,” was a world-famous political activist and leader, actor, singer – truly an American hero. At great personal sacrifice,...

Herbert Aptheker, Marxist historian, dies

April 4, 2003

Herbert Aptheker, Marxist historian and political activist, has passed away at age 87. Few have matched his output of books, pamphlets and articles, all marked by great scholarship, exactingness, intellectual and political integrity and partisanship in...

Where is Salt of the Earth?

April 4, 2003

DALLAS – On Feb. 19, KERA public radio broadcast its regular afternoon talk show with host Glen Mitchell, but his guests were out of the ordinary. United Farm Workers of America legend Dolores Huerta and filmmaker...

Artists need to find something true

April 4, 2003

ReviewLaura Cantrell, When the Roses Bloom Again, Diesel Only, Fall 2002 When our daughter was little we used to drive all night from New Jersey to Tennessee to visit her grandparents. Somewhere in Virginia we’d pick...