Monday, January 21, 2013

Myrlie Evers-Williams to lead invocation at the inauguration



Here is Myrlie Evers-Williams speaking at an NAACP rally at Howard University, 50 years before her invocation at the inauguration today. Learn about Myrlie Evers from a National Visionary Leadership Project interview:http://shar.es/C0V8q and about the life and legacy of Medgar Evers:http://bit.ly/T9CpwH Photo: Corbis.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Puppets, Peace and Political Art




....A discussion held in December at the Theater for the New City with John Bell, Peter Schumann and Tom Finkelpearl. Both Grace and Bob Nichols are mentioned in this discussion. Bob was an enthusiast of Noh drama and for a period in the 1960's Bread and Puppet created theater directly influenced by this Japanese dramatic form.