March 26, 2022 Julie River, Comic Book Resources Here is a fun story about Trekkie Stacy Abrams’ use of Star Trek as a metaphor for her gubernatorial campaign. Publisher CDR.com (Comic Book Resources) includes a video where Abrams reflects on her favorite characters and themes. Read the full story and watch the video here
March 24, 2021 Savannah Behrmann, USA Today AWTT portrait subject Ai-Jen Poo was among those who testified today before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The hearing was held in honor of Equal Pay Day, to examine the long-term economic impacts of gender inequality. “In 2021, pay disparities and discrimination still exist between men and women, and Rep. Carolyn […]
March 08, 2022 Emily Burnham, The Bangor Daily News The Bangor Daily News has featured reporter Emily Burnham’s story about Samantha Smith: “This plucky Maine girl tried to unite US and Russia before nuclear bombs consumed the world.“ Following her retelling of Samantha’s story, Burnham reflects: “After the Soviet Union fell in 1991, relations between the U.S. […]
March 07, 2022 Valerie Royzman, The Bangor Daily News In this recent news story about Americans Who Tell the Truth, reporter Valerie Royzman highlights that “Shetterly’s work invokes the idea that America is still a work in progress . . . “ Read the full story here
February 28, 2022 Bill McKibben, The Guardian AWTT portrait subject Bill McKibben has outlined a formula for defeating Russian expansionism. “This is not a ‘war for oil and gas’ in the sense that too many of America’s Middle East misadventures might plausibly be described. But it is a war underwritten by oil and gas, a war whose most crucial weapon […]
February 18, 2022 Americans Who Tell the Truth Black urban farming is on the rise – and Leah Penniman is center stage. Just this week, the print media featured The Black Fly Urban Farm Academy in Baltimore. And what books will these aspiring farmers read as part of their course work? “Leah Penniman’s Farming While Black is our seminal […]
February 01, 2022 Linda Gregg, The Writer’s Almanac Thanks to The Writer’s Almanac for reminding us of Langston Hughes’s birthday today–and for highlighting some interesting quotes from Hughes: “I like Tristan, goat’s milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike Aida, parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.” “Through […]
January 03, 2022 Jonathan M. Katz, Rolling Stone “As I looked through history to find the origins of the patterns of self-dealing and imperiousness that mark so much of American policy, I kept running into the Quaker Marine with the funny name. Smedley Butler’s military career started in the place where the United States’ overseas empire […]
January 04, 2022 Bob Keyes, Portland Press Herald Here’s a hefty, yet concise, review from Bob Keyes of the Portland (ME) Press Herald. “At its core, ‘Truth Tellers’ is about people who have the courage to stand up for the ideals and values of the country, even as the leaders of the country are too hypocritical to do […]
December 16, 2021 Associated Press “A judge has approved a request to wipe clean the court record of a Black woman who was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus in 1955, months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for doing the same. “A judge granted the request by Claudette […]