By Michaela Corniea Looking at the Larry Olds collection feels like looking at a bag of library secrets. More of an open secret at the East Side Freedom Library, it
Review by Michaela Corniea “One of the greatest and most urgent challenges facing today’s children relates to how they will nurture and educate tomorrow’s children. Therein lies the real hope
Review by Michaela Corniea Pedagogy of the Oppressed was originally written in Portuguese by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, and first published in 1968. Two years later, in 1970, the English
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
The National Japanese American Citizens League is the nation’s oldest and largest Asian American Civil Rights Organization. It was founded in 1929 to address issues of discrimination targeted specifically at
Salvatore Salerno has long been one of this country’s leading scholars on labor and cultural activism among Italian immigrant workers, particularly in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). He
Naomi Scheman is a former Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. She began her career
Benjamin Mchie is the founder and executive director of The African American Registry. (www.aaregistry.org). The Registry is one of the most comprehensive databases of African American heritage online containing thousands
Paula Rabinowitz’s research and teaching are in the areas of American materialist feminist cultural studies. Her work considers the interlocking roles of cinema, photography, painting and material culture in and
Toni Randolph was a veteran award-winning journalist and a long-time news editor for Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) from 2003-2016. Toni died unexpectedly in July of 2016 at the age of