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Food history – and food programming on TV – has been whitewashed for centuries. This powerful series sets an example of how to start correcting the record

The stand-up and SNL writer takes on one of the least diverse genres of entertainment with the aim to drink, have a good group hang and provoke discomfort

Costa Rica poet Simmons protests the legacy of “colonization” that confuses crime and justice.

Activist Derecka Purnell interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about her new book, ‘America on Fire,’ and how the label “riot” discredits Black political demands.

May 19 is the birthday of Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionary that led the Vietnamese people through victorious war and revolution from the 1920s to his death in 1969. This 20-year old review is of the best biography of Ho available in English.

In 1978 body snatchers really did dig up and try to ransom the corpse of the legendary actor Charlie Chaplin shortly after his death. 'Stealing Chaplin' uses this fact-based bit of skullduggery as a mere launching pad for its fact-free comedy.

When “sustainability” includes social justice, most US chicken gets a failing grade.

Amazon’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel turns a masterpiece into amazing television.

Hilary Cruz Mejia, a young Latinx poet from Guatemala, protests the genocidal history of her homeland, while seeking to preserve its indigenous roots.

A biography of protean intellectual Edward Said situates the advocate for Palestinian statehood as a deep political thinker and skeptic of identity politics would both excoriate the crimes of Israel and the US and denounce Arab despotism.