ICE Storm: Echoes of 1930s Germany

ICE Storm: Echoes of 1930s Germany

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents move through Minneapolis neighborhoods, knocking on doors and demanding people prove their citizenship, echoes of 1930s Germany (and the Jim Crow South) can be heard with every knock and forced entry. When Adolf...
Hagar, Ishmael, and the Refugee King

Hagar, Ishmael, and the Refugee King

Liz Vice’s song Refugee King begins with, “Away from the manger they ran for their lives…” Vice takes the tender hymn Away in a Manger, full of peaceful imagery of “cattle lowing” and a baby not crying, and turns it upside down, highlighting the messiness and danger...