I recently was on tour in and around Minneapolis and stayed in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood – referred to as Little Mogadishu. I had read that thousands of Somalians had made Minneapolis their home since the 1980’s, with many more arriving in the 1990’s to escape the horrific civil war in their homeland. What’s the saying… "seeing is believing." In this case "seeing is heart warming." This is the spirit of America. This is the spirit that received my grandparents fro

With all the "Fire and Fury" that the Chief Executive has brought down in the last week, I was particularly caught by an article which shows that many of the Neo-Nazis and White Nationalists who the president seems to have a hate-crush with would not be considered for their own club if they could see their genetic testing tracing their ancestry. This has not dissuaded them from jumping head first into delusion lake when the science does not fit their beliefs (sound familiar

Punctuated with beats by De La Soul and Slick Rick, and replete with an onstage D.J., the high school-aged performers of “Roxbury Strong” delivered a history lesson of their city’s sometimes besieged but unbowed residents. The stage is set up as multi-leveled platforms from which the actors delivered first person monologues in the character of a historic Roxbury persona, each representing a particular point in time. The name and photograph of each historic figure showed on