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Standing Up: Tales of Struggle - Art Imitates Life

Jane LaTour New York Labor History Association
The stories in Standing Up are linked thematically and appear in chronological order, beginning with 1970. For those of us who have similarly spent time as organizers, the book feels like an anthropological field trip into the past.

film

How China Captured Hollywood

Erich Schwartzel The Atlantic
Over this next century, China wants to use the movies to rebrand itself, and it has learned how to do so from the best.

food

Black Dinners Matter

Amanda Yee and Soleil Ho Whetstone Magazine
Food was a weapon of control by slaveholders, most often used as a mechanism for domination and exploitation. The story of African American food has also been a story about self-determination and ownership.

books

Lessons for Courtiers

Daniel Schlozman Dissent Magazine
The results of the 2020 Democratic primaries suggest the limits of a left strategy for power starting at, rather than building toward, the presidency.

food

Cravings

Harvard Chan editors Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Food cravings cravings can pop up at any moment and aren’t always fueled by hunger pangs.

poetry

Kristallnacht in Tulsa

Philip C Kolin
Mississippi poet Philip Kolin depicts the crushing of the Black community in Tulsa, OK one century ago.
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