America lost a voice of the people today. Pete Seeger passed on early today. I remember my father and grandfather teaching me about him and the Guthries and the voices who kept those fighting for their rights a reason to unify, and sometimes to smile. They told the stories of our nation, often in the only way folks would listen to them.
Start here. They keep adding stuff over at the Maddow blog and there hasn't been a bad piece yet.
If you still can, read the New York Times obituary.
Also read this from PRI.
Some backstory on Seeger and his fight against censors and the hate-filled boogeymen like Joe MacCarthy.
And, a rememberance, from a contemporary.
Let us wrap up with this from the Nightly News:
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