Portside

When social movements need to march in beat, Dick Flacks gives them a song. What follows is a brief tour through influential songs and poems of protest and resistance in U.S. history, many with rural roots, with Flack’s extensive knowledge as a guide

Public schools are a political battleground

This was the first incarnation of the Pledge of Allegiance, composed by Bellamy, though conspicuously missing two prominent elements, namely, any mention of the United States or of God.