Published: May 22, 2018
Written By: Fred Blanco In 1972, Arizona passed a bill banning boycotts during harvest seasons. Cesar Chavez responded with a 25-day “Fast for Love.” The fast quickly took its physical toll on Chavez and he was eventually hospitalized. Many came to him to urge him to stop endangering himself. Among… Read More
Published: May 21, 2018
Written By: Jeremy Meier Today’s American public is well familiar with the seemingly never-ending primary season—the long leadup and prologue to the summer conventions feels like it goes on like a presidential opera in eight acts. We see hopefuls in each party launching hype campaigns months before Iowa and New… Read More
Published: May 16, 2018
In 1964, Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique and made waves across America. Friedan was a leading figure in the second-wave of the women’s movement in the US and her writing changed the way society thought about women. On the 2018 Ohio Chautauqua tour, Sally Ann Drucker… Read More