This is a long time coming.

Just think of all of the potential technological advances we missed out on because of simple fear and bigotry. May we all get better at handling each other’s differences.

Some follow up on Pete Seeger’s passing, including this obit from our local NPR music station.

Also, this old Fresh Air interview from longer ago than I would like it to feel.

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.