The Sheepherder’s Ball
Basque sheepherders in the American west. Basques were recruited from Spain and France during the 1930s to tend sheep throughout the western states. Within days of arriving in America these…
New Orleans Visions – King’s Candy & Living with Water
Robert King Wilkerson was imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for 31 years, twenty-nine of those years in solitary confinement. During that time he created a clandestine kitchen in…
From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories
Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.
From the Point of View of a Cat
By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’
How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body – The Microbiome
What happens when microbes talk to your brain?
Let’s Talk about Books
In which John recommends some of his favorite fiction, poetry, and nonfiction reading of the year. Books discussed in this video include: The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThe Inexplicable…
Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers & Francis Stewart’s Censored Photographs of a WWII Japanese Internment Camp
In places where atrocities or widespread human rights violations occur, we sometimes hear ordinary citizens later claim they didn’t know what was going on. In the case of the internment…
Michigan rapist gets joint custody
A Sanilac County Circuit judge has granted parenting time and joint legal custody of an 8-year-old boy to a convicted sex offender who allegedly raped the child’s mother nine years…
It’s All for the Breast
by Alexis Sugden {read the rest}
With fewer farmhands, Michigan farmers more willing to buy worker visas
“I know they are legal,” Leitz said of his H-2A workers. “If ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) comes in at least I know I still have workers.” Thus far,…