Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land, a new book by USC professor and journalist Sandy Tolan, follows the journey of a young, music-loving Palestinian boy who threw stones at ...

In the fall of 1998, NPR producer Sandy Tolan met Henry Aaron while recording a story about the 25th anniversary of the Hammer's eclipse of Babe Ruth's career home-run total. That brief encounter is ...

Sandy Tolan is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC and author of books including Me and Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-Five Years Later. When I spoke with my ...

It all sounds highly improbable: A young Palestinian lawyer named Bashir Khairi boards a bus in Jerusalem barely a month after the Six-Day War in the spring of 1967 and travels to see the stone-block ...

Editor’s Note: Sandy Tolan (@sandy_tolan) is the author of three books, including “Me and Hank,” about his boyhood hero Hank Aaron, and “The Lemon Tree,” now out in a children’s edition. He is a ...

Author, professor and journalist Sandy Tolan (left) engaged in field reporting to assess the working and living conditions on Dominican sugarcane plantations, where Haitian workers labor for as little ...

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Sandy Tolan, TomDispatch regular and author of The Lemon Tree, is an associate professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His new book is Children of the Stone: The Power of ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Sandy Tolan is an Associate Professor for Annenberg School of Journalism in the University of Southern California with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first ...