Remembering poet, Spanish Civil War vet Ramon Durem
Although of mixed heritage, he identified as African American, and his poems impacted the Black Power movement as a cultural inspiration.
Today in history: Musician/activist Leonard Bernstein is born
Bernstein became the most prominent American-born conductor and a supremely talented musician, educator and composer.
Eye in the Sky: Surveillance and the art of Arnold Mesches
The manuscripts in question: Mesches' FBI file, 1945 to 1972; Arny, as he calls himself, is 91.
