Eric A. Gordon

A stunning new documentary film co-directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie and produced by National Geographic will open your eyes—and perhaps more importantly, your heart—to the widespread abuse of Indigenous children over the course of a century.

TOPANGA, Calif. — “In 2016 when Trump got elected,” recalls playwright Bernardo Cubría, “I started getting all these text messages from friends of mine, most of whom were white Americans, and they were like, ‘Dude, how could 30% of Latinos or Hispanic people vote for Trump?'

August 30, 2024 10:16 AM CDT People's World offers you this Sudoku puzzle as a special gift for Labor Day.

September 4, 2024 10:02 AM CDT LOS ANGELES — Not many longtime community activists for labor and civil rights, and for basic democratic

September 10, 2024 10:32 AM CDT Last year, a hardworking music publicist alerted me to a rare performance of Damien Geter's

LOS ANGELES and BURBANK— What if the South had won the Civil War? That proposition lay behind my father's frequent observation to my mother (born and raised in Norfolk, Va.) that if the South had won, she'd have been born in a foreign country! (I might have been able to claim dual citizenship, but to what good?)

LOS ANGELES — From his clever and wise writing in last year's The Bottoming Process , I could tell Nicholas Pilapil would be one playwright to watch.

People’s World offers you this Sudoku puzzle as we head into election season. Instead of the numbers 1-9, we offer a set of nine letters, in alphabetical order: A F L O P R V W Z Fill them in and read our message.

It must be quite a daunting challenge to start writing an autobiography when you're over 90! But that's exactly what movement singer and organizer Barbara Dane has done, and it is a beaut! What amazes me is the ready access she seems to have enjoyed to a vast archive not only of memory itself but of physical evidence—recordings, films, photographs, press coverage, calendars—and a host of fellow artists with whom she collaborated over what for most other performers would have been two or three-lifetime careers.

PASADENA, Calif.––American author Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) captured his third Pulitzer Prize in 1942 with his play The Skin of Our Teeth . The other two were for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) and his earlier play Our Town