Hate Came to My Bookstore
Hate came to my bookstore by Linda Sherman-Nurick, www.losangelesblade.com In October, the ignorance and hatred boiling over in our country walked in and attempted to disrupt Drag Queen Story Hour at Cellar Door Bookstore in Riverside. Their ugliness interrupted a community event that promotes understanding among us all. Amid ever-growing violence and fear in our country, these kinds of events are critical opportunities to celebrate our common humanity, erasing fear and hatred [...]
One-man Play: Ingersoll Speaks
From June 1-25, LA hosts the Hollywood Fringe. Thousands of performers present over 357 shows covering the whole spectrum of the arts. Here's one: “INGERSOLL SPEAKS!” by Ernest Kearney THE GREATEST AMERICAN YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF "America don't know to-day how proud she ought to be of lngersoll." Walt Whitman Robert lngersoll (1833-1899) Civil War veteran, radical Republican power-broker and the most in?uential intellectual in US history. Ingersoll campaigned for Negro equality, [...]