During the two weeks that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been on trial for murdering George Floyd, the legend of John Henry has come to mind. According to the great American folk ballad, the railroad laborer was working in West Virginia in the early 1870s when his company …
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This November 18th marks the 40th anniversary of what is now known as the Jonestown Massacre, when more than 900 Americans — members of a San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple — died after drinking a cyanide-laced drink at the urging of their leader, the Reverend Jim Jones, …
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Bassist Matt Dresdner still remembers the first time he heard Mia Zapata sing, a few months before they started their band the Gits. It was in the spring of 1986 at an open mic event on the campus of Ohio’s Antioch College, where he and Zapata were going to school. …
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