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The artists choice: freedom or slavery
April 11, 2003Paul 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,...
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Herbert Aptheker, Marxist historian, dies
April 4, 2003Herbert 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...
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Where is Salt of the Earth?
April 4, 2003DALLAS – 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...
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Artists need to find something true
April 4, 2003ReviewLaura 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...
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Memphis 1968: We remember
April 3, 2003An assassin’s bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers. (See related story below)
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