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The Hidden Potential of Bicycles

Brian Kaller Mayberry
The bicycle remains the most efficient method of using our bodies, allowing us to attain higher machine speeds for longer than we would on muscle power alone – and without using any more fuel or causing any more weather to go haywire.

March 28, 2024: Supply Chains, Immigrants and Baltimore

Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American
The workers who died in the bridge collapse on Tuesday “were not ‘poisoning the blood of our country they were replenishing it…. They may have been born all over the continent, but when these men plunged into our waters, they died as Americans."

This Week in People’s History, Apr 2–8

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The cover of the book "Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions"
A Jury Frees the Panther 21 (in 1969), 8 Hours a Day is Long Enough to Work (1919), When You're Hot, You're Hot (1964), Take Your War and Shove It! (1969), You CAN Fight City Hall (1934), Inventing Email Wasn't Easy (1969), Jim Crow Must Go! (1964)

Do It Yourself, Brother: Cultural Autonomy and the New Thing

Christian Noakes Monthly Review
The story of the struggle to liberate jazz from the exploitative, white-controlled music industry in 1950s, the seminal events of the movement and backlash from white civil society and the legacy of Black cultural autonomy and resistance.