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By turning the novel into just a corset-heaving love story, the director has stripped it of what made it so boundary-pushing

A lot of this work about food sovereignty is bringing an understanding of our indigenous foods back to us. We work on rebuilding our food systems and bring a lot of pride and connection back to our ancestors.

While streaming on Amazon is a little on the nose, the Fallout television series admirably embraces the anti-capitalist critique of the original video game franchise. Its apocalyptic alternate America feels less far-fetched every day.

Poet David Alpaugh satirizes the bait-and-switch of corporate capitalism.

This book, writes reviewer Early, "is a fine, solidly written biographical and political study of Jesse Jackson and the rise of Black presidential aspirations in the American two-party system."

Between 2020 and 2023, reported food fraud incidents, which can pose serious health risks including exposure to toxic additives, increased over 1,000%.

It’s no wonder Donald Trump was enraged by Bad Bunny’s halftime show at the Super Bowl. The Puerto Rican trap star has grown into the role of political artist, and the creativity of his music is an indictment of MAGA’s schlock-filled cultural wastela

Institutional menace and an idealistic take on redemption sit side-by-side in Top Boy actor Ashley Walters’ empathic and occasionally over-earnest film

Oakland poet Murray Silverstein takes you, me, Primo Levi, Dante & Ulysses on a tour of hell, a place not unlike contemporary America.

In the first years of the war, it was more than coincidental that the frontline fighters were disproportionately Black. Still, the Pentagon was willing to tolerate Black soldiers only inasmuch as they forswore cultural expressions of Blackness.