Cheers and Jeers
Jeer: Roger Daltrey, the lead singer of The Who, is also the curator of a long-running series of concerts in Britain benefiting teenage cancer victims, and he announced this week he is stepping down from that role. That’s a not surprising turn of events for someone who is ...
Decades later, MLK’s legacy still strongly resonates
The birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., became a federal holiday 41 years ago, a culmination of efforts that began shortly after he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968 when he was just 39 years old.
This means the holiday marking ...
It’s time for America to get smarter about civics and history
In November, The New York Times ran a story about a subset of voters who were more enthused about the idea of Vice President Kamala Harris making a White House bid than her boss, President Joe Biden.
One passage in particular ...