Yearly Archives: 2016
For the Love of Music
2016: A Year of Political Insanity—or is it?
It is a year of unprecedented extremes in the climate of presidential politics. It is a year of terrorist attacks around the world, most inflicted by Muslims upon other Muslims. It is a year that has left humanity groping for answers to the perennial question: “Why?” Satisfying answers, however, are…
Soldier of Misfortune
In July of 1966 the Viet Nam war was just warming up the bloodmobile, Lyndon Johnson was president, Kent State was just a school no one ever heard of, and Detroit was not a good place to be black. Jerry Burnett knew that better than most of us. I didn’t…