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If American labor has a golden patron, it surely must be President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But FDR had pretty distinct views about private-sector labor unions versus government unions. “The very nature and purposes o...

William Parkers Universal Tonality is a recording he has been holding in his back pocket for just about 20 years now, which is crazy because its so good.

Loyal followers of jazz activist, visionary, poet, and multi-instrumentalist William Parker are doubtlessly already aware of the book, his biography

Loyal followers of jazz activist, visionary, poet, and multi-instrumentalist William Parker are doubtlessly already aware of the book, his biography

“Higher property taxes from Amendment 1 would mean I’m gonna have to leave Illinois because I can’t afford to stay here."

First Presbyterian Church, York, Pennsylvania

Senyawa vocalist Rully Shabara in a February interview with Reader contributor Joshua Minsoo Kim for his online music zine Tone Glow. “But is that true?” Shabara, 38, and instrument inventor Wukir Suryadi, 43, founded this Indonesian duo in 2010, and when I first wrote about them in 2014, I said their largely improvised music “combines the ancient gravity of a firelit ritual and the electric futurism of the avant-garde.” Senyawa know they aren’t engaged in a mass-market enterprise, s...