The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in Soviet Russia in 1921. Watch THE GREAT FAMINE Sat Apr 2 at 9/8c on World Channel → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/famine | American Experience | PBS

Written to raise money to help relief efforts for the famine raging in Ethiopia in the mid 80s, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, sung by supergroup ‘Band Aid’, broke several chart records and has been re-recorded several times. Could this happen today? What do you think? | Suzan Hall My Take Gen X