On NPR’s Tell Me More last week, Tomás Jiménez, author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity, spoke to Lynn Neary about whether recent drug-related violence in Mexico is changing immigration …
Read More >On his blog Media Myth Alert yesterday, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, addressed the media-driven myth that Edward R. Murrow’s …
Read More >In this post, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, debunks the “Cronkite Moment”, an anecdote widely repeated as an example of …
Read More >Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, spoke at the Second Harvest Food Bank School Lunch Nutrition Summit in Watsonville, CA, an event focused on school lunch …
Read More >On February 18, 1885, Mark Twain published the American edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Early reviews ranged from praise to scathing criticism: the San Francisco Chronicle called it “the most amusing …
Read More >In an interview today on Democracy Now!, Steven Hill, author of Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age, spoke about fundamental differences between the European …
Read More >There is no place for death in most modern-day American homes. The “parlor”, where wakes used to be held, is now known as the “living room”, as author Nancy Scheper-Hughes notes in …
Read More >by Steven Hill, author of Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age and Director of the Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation Picture …
Read More >Jack O’Dell has spent nearly his entire life working and writing for social justice. In Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell, editor Nikhil Pal Singh presents a …
Read More >This week, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a feature of Gerald Nachman’s Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan’s America. The Chronicle’s Regan McMahon interviewed Nachman in Oakland, where Nachman grew …
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