Rosa Parks, the matriarch of the civil rights movement, has been described as an old woman who was too tired to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. However, Parks used her autobiography to correct the record. “I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two.” She also made it clear that “the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” Parks’s sentiment represented the view of the millions of African Americans, and their allies...| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Rachel Carson was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, and spent her childhood on a farm. She studied English and zoology at Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) and received her master’s degree in marine biology from Johns Hopkins University. She taught zoology at the University of Maryland before going to work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service where, in 1949, she became chief editor of its publications. In 1952, she purchased land on the Sheepscot River in West Southp...| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Daniel Ellsberg, born in Chicago, graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1952 with a degree in economics. After three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served as a rifle corps commander, he returned to Harvard to earn his Ph.D. in economics.| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Author’s note: I wrote this piece when I was painting John Brown’s portrait back in 2012. It was my attempt to sort out the complex aspects of his character and clarify my attraction to legacy, my admiration for his fierce courage and commitment despite his darker reputation. Once the portrait was completed, I set these […]| Americans Who Tell The Truth
The justification for erasing America’s historic injustices, claiming that knowing them causes kids to feel guilt or shame, is a high priority for our current| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Americans Who Tell the Truth are dedicated to the belief that a profound understanding of citizenship is the only safeguard of democracy.| Americans Who Tell The Truth
The mythological character, Narcissus, who is mesmerized by his own image mirrored in water, is the origin of the term narcissism, an obsessively| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Trump’s superiority to, and ignorance of, the laws of nature make life itself an endangered species. The planet cries out to be rid of him and his fascist| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Some people use a recording of rain’s soothing white noise to put themselves to sleep. I like to be woken up by the real thing. My house is surrounded by old| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Rachel Corrie was a twenty-three-year-old activist whose life ended abruptly on March 16, 2003, while she was working as a protester in the Gaza Strip. She grew up in Olympia, Washington, attended Capital High School and then The Evergreen State College. While in college, Corrie joined the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, and later, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Hala Rharrit was at home on October 7, 2023, when she learned of the Hamas militant group’s attack on Israel. Stationed in Dubai and serving as Arabic Language Spokesperson and Dubai Regional Media Hub Deputy Director for the U.S. Department of State, Rharrit wasn’t surprised an attack had occurred. For some time the Gaza Strip, a small piece of land along the Mediterranean Sea inhabited mainly by Palestinian refugees and their descendants, had been a ticking time bomb. Every few years wa...| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Yesterday afternoon, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., 17 men and women dressed all in black, stood in a line on the street in the little village of Blue Hill, Maine. Each of us held an empty pot, open end toward the road, and a wooden spoon. We were bearing witness to the starvation in Gaza enforced by […]| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Thanks to former Times Union reporter Paul Grondahl for covering the unveiling of Dr. Alice P. Green’s portrait on May 22, 2025. Grondahl also wrote the brief AWTT biography of Green that accompanies her portrait. The following article includes exerpt’s from Grondahl’s report, which appeared in the Albany Times Union on May 28. ALBANY — When […]| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Artist Robert Shetterly’s visit to the Oregon Episcopal School in Portland earlier this month was a resounding success. The school hung an exhibit of twenty portraits in their chapel during the month of May 2025 and invited Shetterly to visit for a day. The theme of the exhibit was ecojustice. Shetterly visited classes in all […]| Americans Who Tell The Truth
About 200 middle-school and high-school students gathered at Orono (ME) High School May 20, 2025 to celebrate their participation in this year’s Samantha Smith Challenge. Approximately 500 students took part in this year’s program, although not all were able to make the trip to Orono. Schools represented include: Monarch Learning Academy (FL) Hazelwood Elementary School […]| Americans Who Tell The Truth
In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq for a second time since 1991, after a decade of imposing deadly sanctions. This Second Gulf War, launched as part of the Global War on Terrorism, killed over 300,000 Iraqi people. According to the Costs of War, the 2003 U.S. invasion has left 9.2 million Iraqis internally displaced or as refugees.| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Channapha Khamvongsa’s sincerity and commitment to her mission are apparent and have been reinforced, rather than subverted, over the course of a tough life.| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset is the daughter of two First Nations, the Penobscot and the Passamaquoddy tribes, whose sovereign territories are found within the borders of the state of Maine. Both nations are members of the Wabanaki Confederacy, which also includes the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, and Abenaki peoples, and the Indigenous Algonquian language group. But it is in clear, powerful English that Sherri delivers the message of our interconnected and shared histories and our inext...| Americans Who Tell The Truth
