Host Carol Hills tells us about the recently late Australian Aboriginal singer-songwriter Archie Roach. His important contribution to music as well as activism is a song titled “Took the Children Away.” It’s his personal account of being taken from his family at the age of 4 to a church boarding school to be assimilated into Australian society, a policy that traumatized Aboriginal communities there for most of the 20th century.
The story you just read is not locked behind a paywall because listeners and readers like you generously support our nonprofit newsroom. Now more than ever, we need your help to support our global reporting work and power the future of The World. Can we count on you?