The East Side Freedom Library and The Saint Paul Federation of Teachers Imagine a high school where the cool kids are on the chess team. Welcome to I.S.318 in Brooklyn, NY, a "below poverty" junior high where the chess team has won more national championships than any other in the country. Follow the lives and […]

In June 1961, six Minnesotans boarded a bus to challenge the Jim Crow laws of the South which required whites to sit in the front of the bus and blacks to sit in the back. They faced violence, arrest, and imprisonment. They would change America and transform themselves. Among them was 20 year old Claire […]

In June 1961, six Minnesotans boarded a bus to challenge the Jim Crow laws of the South which required whites to sit in the front of the bus and blacks to sit in the back. They faced violence, arrest, and imprisonment. They would change America and transform themselves. Among them was 20 year old Claire […]

In June 1961, six Minnesotans boarded a bus to challenge the Jim Crow laws of the South which required whites to sit in the front of the bus and blacks to sit in the back. They faced violence, arrest, and imprisonment. They would change America and transform themselves. Among them was 20 year old Claire […]

In June 1961, six Minnesotans boarded a bus to challenge the Jim Crow laws of the South which required whites to sit in the front of the bus and blacks to sit in the back. They faced violence, arrest, and imprisonment. They would change America and transform themselves. Among them was 20 year old Claire […]

Participate in a Roundtable Discussion on Class & the Arts   organized by Khoo Wu Chen, well known Twin Cities lighting designer and co-founder of Technical Tools of the Trade(www.techtoolstraining.org)   and featuring Carlyle Brown, playwright and producer (http://carlylebrownandcompany.org) Marcus Dillard, lighting designer and University of Minnesota professor Wendy Knox, artistic director, Frank Theater (www.franktheatre.org) […]

Participate in a Roundtable Discussion on Class & the Arts   organized by Khoo Wu Chen, well known Twin Cities lighting designer and co-founder of Technical Tools of the Trade(www.techtoolstraining.org)   and featuring Carlyle Brown, playwright and producer (http://carlylebrownandcompany.org) Marcus Dillard, lighting designer and University of Minnesota professor Wendy Knox, artistic director, Frank Theater (www.franktheatre.org) […]

Participate in a Roundtable Discussion on Class & the Arts   organized by Khoo Wu Chen, well known Twin Cities lighting designer and co-founder of Technical Tools of the Trade(www.techtoolstraining.org)   and featuring Carlyle Brown, playwright and producer (http://carlylebrownandcompany.org) Marcus Dillard, lighting designer and University of Minnesota professor Wendy Knox, artistic director, Frank Theater (www.franktheatre.org) […]

Participate in a Roundtable Discussion on Class & the Arts   organized by Khoo Wu Chen, well known Twin Cities lighting designer and co-founder of Technical Tools of the Trade(www.techtoolstraining.org)   and featuring Carlyle Brown, playwright and producer (http://carlylebrownandcompany.org) Marcus Dillard, lighting designer and University of Minnesota professor Wendy Knox, artistic director, Frank Theater (www.franktheatre.org) […]

Join a discussion with Jack Ross, author of the just-published THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA: A COMPLETE HISTORY (Potomac Books, 2015).  An independent historian based in Brooklyn, Ross is on a nationwide book tour.  His book is the first substantial new assessment of the Socialist Party’s history in more than half a century, and his […]

Join a discussion with Jack Ross, author of the just-published THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA: A COMPLETE HISTORY (Potomac Books, 2015).  An independent historian based in Brooklyn, Ross is on a nationwide book tour.  His book is the first substantial new assessment of the Socialist Party’s history in more than half a century, and his […]

Join a discussion with Jack Ross, author of the just-published THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA: A COMPLETE HISTORY (Potomac Books, 2015).  An independent historian based in Brooklyn, Ross is on a nationwide book tour.  His book is the first substantial new assessment of the Socialist Party’s history in more than half a century, and his […]

Join a discussion with Jack Ross, author of the just-published THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA: A COMPLETE HISTORY (Potomac Books, 2015).  An independent historian based in Brooklyn, Ross is on a nationwide book tour.  His book is the first substantial new assessment of the Socialist Party’s history in more than half a century, and his […]