MY HERO Student Art Contest
Americans Who Tell the Truth is pleased to be partnering again this year with the MY HERO Project to offer a student art contest. Deadline for submissions is March 1, 2026.
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Columbus Montessori Education Center Hosts AWTT Portraits
Columbus Montessori Education Center hosts eight AWTT portrait in February and March 2026.
Activism and the Creative Process
The New Garden Friends Meeting will host AWTT artist Shetterly for two events on the morning of Sunday, February 8, 2026.
Just to Watch him Die
When I was just a baby, my mama told me, “SonAlways be a good boy, don′t ever play with guns”But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.When I hear that whistle blowin’, I hang my head and cry (oh yeah!) – Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues One of the curious aspects […]
Sports, Trump and Unruling the Game
Ever since discovering playground kickball in the second grade, I have loved sports. In high school I ran track (a mediocre 400 meters), played football (a decent linebacker), basketball (a good corner jump shot), and baseball (always a little afraid of line drives). I loved the competition, the practice—loved improving my competence, loved team camaraderie. I enjoyed […]
Claudette Colvin 1939-2026
“… as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don’t the adults around here just say something? Say it so that they know we don’t accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take […]
MLK Day in Brooksville, Maine
Reversing Falls Sanctuary will host Robert Shetterly and AWTT at a MLK Day Celebration on Monday, January 19, 2026, at 2 p.m.
When Woke Meets Affordable
I’ve written before about the fierce negativity of the MAGA community toward Wokeness, i.e., their contention that teaching or professing the true history of racism in the United States is a terrible thing to do because it heaps shame and guilt on white children for racial sins of the past, sins they are not responsible for and […]
Shetterly Lecture: Art in an Age of Democratic Upheaval
Robert Shetterly will deliver the Center for Global Humanities Lecture, at Innovation Hall on the University of New England Portland Campus, on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, at 6 p.m.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in Bangor, Maine
Singer/songwriter Reggie Harris will be the featured performer at the Martin Luther King Day celebration at 3 p.m. on Sunday, January 18, 2026, at the First Methodist Church in Bangor, Maine.