• Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    ICE Detains Forest Park Cemetery Workers

    October 14, 2025 - By 

    They were working on the Concordia Cemetery water system when they heard voices coming from the nearby river. They tried to assist 2 men, wading in water up to their necks, fleeing from ICE. In a way, the men were trying to reach sanctuary on holy ground, though they may not have realized they were trying to climb up the bank into a cemetery. The ICE-ickles demanded a locked gate be opened, then pulled out bolt cutters and entered without waiting. The cemetery workers were cuffed and left beside the pump house for more than an hour, then taken away…

  • Hazel Scott, virtuoso pianist and Black cultural icon, in an off the shoulder beaded gown, shot in profile. Her features are classically beautiful, like a Greek statue, but cut from granite, strong and confident.
    Music - Politics, Schmolitics

    The Second Vanishing of Hazel Scott

    October 14, 2025 - By 

    I had never heard of Hazel Scott before, her star fell into the shadows of McCarthyism before I was born. It’s a shame that she was forgotten the first time;  let’s resist her second disappearance. It may be time to fire up a PBS Passport membership to watch this documentary (and so much more). I wonder what Mom and Dad thought of her TV show; Pop did love Nat “King” Cole and other Black entertainers.  Sometimes it seems we Americans are forgetting who we were, which means we don’t know who we are, and we won’t recognize who we’ll become.…

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    Wish I Were There: Pre-K Program In Colorado

    October 14, 2025 - By 

    This may look like playing in mud, but it’s pre-k “how to do school” set in an experimental farm study area. The kids have a mobile classroom that takes them all over the Grand Valley, in the shadow of the Colorado National Monument. Link: A Grand Junction pre-K in the midst of farm experiments teaches kids how to learn and parents how to support them