French street artist JR has been challenging the walls between people for a long time. He recently erected a massive image of a Latin American child looking over the U.S. border wall with Mexico. At a time when the U.S. policies toward immigration have include separating children from families and housing them in over-crowded detention… Read more »
Category: North America
Michael Jackson (1958-2009)
Michael Jackson was one of the most-widely known singers in the world. He began in a singing group as a child with his brothers, The Jackson 5. As he reach adulthood he launched a solo career that exploded into a global phenomenon. His dancing, including his famous “Moonwalk,” was groundbreaking and electrifying. Though he was… Read more »
Edwin Starr (1942-2003)
Edwin Starr was one of the singers to come out of Detroit’s Motown Records. Born in Tennessee and raised in Ohio, he moved to Detroit to become part of the dynamic music scene. He had many Soul and R&B hits, but his big #1 hit was “War.” Those powerful lines immediately jump to mind and… Read more »
Stan Rogers
Stan Rogers was known as the folk singer who captured the lives of Canadian people from the Maritime Provinces to the Great Lakes and Plains. He certainly wasn’t a pacifist as one of his songs (“Harris and the Mare”) sadly celebrates a conscientious objector who reaches his breaking point when a drunk assaulted the “conchie’s”… Read more »
John Hunter
John Hunter invites his fourth-grade students to solve some of the most complex problems vexing human societies, and they do! A teacher given wide latitude to develop his own educational program for gifted students, Hunter developed the World Peace Game to stimulate the thinking and problem-solving of 9 and 10-year old minds. For Hunter world… Read more »