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Know Your Neighbors: The Peace Train Comes Through the Desert, With the Help of Palm Springs Women in Film and Television

Let me bring you into the world of Sharon Katz, a South African by birth, a music therapist by profession—and, in the words of musician Pete Seeger, “one of the people who is saving the world.” She was born in Port Elizabeth (now called Nelson Mandela Bay) under apartheid—the rigid racial/social ideology system that required […]

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