Mimi Farina, folksinger and founder of the Bread and Roses charitable organization, died of cancer yesterday morning at her Mill Valley home. She was 56. Her family, including sister Joan Baez, were ...

The late folk artist and social activist Mimi Fariña’s memory and legacy live on in Bread & Roses, the organization she founded to bring music and entertainment to isolated populations. According to ...

In Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña, former EW editor David Hajdu recasts folk as a soap opera set to music, starring two of the ...

Mimi Farina, a folk singer who struggled in the shadow of her celebrated sister, Joan Baez, and then reinvented herself as a musical benefactor of the infirm and imprisoned, died Wednesday of ...

Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending human rights can positively influence how people experience events ...

Mimi Fariña pictured at the Bread & Roses office in 1984. (Tom Strickland/IJ archive) Mimi Fariña performs at San Francisco’s Stern Grove in the 1970s. (Photo by Ty Yurgelevic) Jasmine Harris, with ...

It’s been all too easy to romanticize the folk scene of the early ’60s, with its earnest proto-hippies enamored of music well-steeped in history and politics. Appealing as the idea of a world without ...

"Positively Fourth Street" is one of the most rapturously spiteful pop songs of the 1960s. Recorded by Bob Dylan four days after he enraged folk loyalists at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival by ...