The role of popular performers in reshaping political opinions, especially for young people, has never been fully recognized.
Lamentations
Lent is about to begin. Let us all get on our knees, whatever faith or lack of faith we hold and say one of the prayers from the Ash Wednesday service…
Out of Darkness
I have learned in dark times to turn to a few trusted resources.
Bone
Yesterday morning on KUNM, the invaluable National Public Radio Station where five days a week I listen to “Native America Calling,” the only program in the country to showcase the tribes, I heard about a business in Arizona that makes prosthetic devices—arms, hands, partial hands and legs.
We Will Never Learn
Finally, finally, the story of the Native American boarding schools in the U.S. has been sprung open by the discovery of the buried remains of more than a hundred children at a residential boarding school in Canada.
I Speak for Democracy
I, along with thousands of other teenagers, did “speak for democracy” in a laboriously fashioned essay, presented on the radio, and winning me a prize—a black and white TV set my parents insisted that I return.