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A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American "without a song of my own," she found her voice in the 1960s through the revolutionary movements occurring in the U.S. and

Smithsonian Folkways has just announced artist and activist Nobuko Miyamoto's new album, 120,000 Stories. The album will release January 29th and is now available for pre-order.From the Smithsonian Folkways press release:120,000 Stories is...her first release since 1973’s seminal A Grain of

By Scott Kurashige, author of The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit

We are deeply saddened to hear of Yale Senior Research Scholar and true giant in the fields of sociology, economics, and world systems analysis Immanuel Watterstein's passing at age 88. Wallerstein’s highly influential, multivolume opus, The Modern World-System I, II, III, and IV, is one of this ce