Ben Folds was a high school dream come true. “Jackson Cannery” still turns me into a pseudo-piano maestro.
Author: Jun Tsuboike
Freddie Gray
Trials for the police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray starts today in Baltimore.
On assignment for NPR. Full text here: http://www.npr.org/2015/11/29/457404032/baltimore-residents-wary-as-freddie-gray-trials-slated-to-begin
Holodomor Remembrance Day



Remembering genocide.
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Ukraine during 1932 and 1933. Millions were killed as a result of Soviet agricultural policies, and those victims are remembered by Ukrainians around the world on the fourth Saturday of November every year.