Mar 14, 2023 | Blog
By John McKenzie I first heard of Bill Onasch when I was asked to help catalog his books, which had been donated to the East Side Freedom Library after his death in 2021. ESFL has been blessed with donations of books from a number of individuals, many of them...Feb 24, 2023 | Blog
by Chris Sanders The 1920s and 30s was a period of turmoil and change for many African Americans. Economic exploitation, terror from the KKK, and political disenfranchisement led to a migration of over 6 million Black people from the rural South to the urban North and...Jan 6, 2023 | Blog
By Ellie Belew My own lefty ways were forged growing up in a Minneapolis suburb. I live in Washington State now, but came to consciousness within the social disconnect of the Twin Cities of the 1960s and 1970s: a powerful coop movement, violent city police, expansive...Sep 27, 2019 | Blog
The narratives of the “American dream” made the United States a wonderland for a promising future in the imaginations of European immigrants around the turn of the 20th century. Thousands of Finns, Swedes, Slavs, young or old, male or female alike, kissed goodbyes to...Jul 25, 2019 | Blog
By Alison Emery “[I]t is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.” ― Matthew Desmond As I...