His song “Took the Children Away,” inspired by his childhood, shook Australians into confronting a grim era when their government tore apart Aboriginal families. By Alex Traub One day in 1970, Archie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archie Roach, the legendary Indigenous Australian artist whose song “Took the Children Away” was recognized with a Human Rights ...

The Kamilaroi and Bigambul artist Archie Moore has been tapped to represent Australia at the 60th Venice Biennale, set to open in April 2024. The news was announced this week by the Australia Council ...

When Archie Roach was 3 or 4, welfare officers came to take him away from his family in southeastern Australia. His aunt tried to scare them off with a gun, and his cousins tried to hide him under a ...

The 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Yield Strength assembles twenty-four leading Australian artists with works that reveal how materials, selfhood and society are tested - and transformed - ...

The spacious and comfortable Dunstan Playhouse was filled to capacity for Archie Roach and Tiddas, as Jack Buckskin took to the stage to welcome us to country in English and in Kaurna, the native ...

One day in 1970, Archie Cox’s high school English class in Melbourne, Australia, was interrupted by a voice from the intercom: “Could Archibald William Roach come to the office?” An uncanny feeling ...

Archie Roach, who lived and sang the Aboriginal Blues, dies at 66 September 3, 2022 by The New York Times 0 Comments ...