To honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., the Los Altos History Museum plans to highlight a less-known period of local history inspired by King’s activism for racial equality.
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Welcome to Revolution Treehouse, your corner of the Lawrentian for all things creative, outspoken and change-making! Art of every form is an evocative and efficient vehicle for political ideas, ranging from the protest music of the Vietnam War era to the graffiti transformation of confederate monuments during summer 2020. This column aims to share great art and cool facts about important historical and contemporary social movements with the Lawrence community because knowledge and inspiration make us powerful. Welcome to Revolution Treehouse!
Writer, poet and essayist Jenny Zhang was born in China, raised in New York and educated at Stanford University; her writings reflect the complexities of those histories and experiences. Growing up in Shanghai, young Zhang was an avid storyteller, but she became very uncomfortable with speaking after immigrating to the United States at four and a half years old and having to start over with a new language. In a May 2020 phone inte