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Chappell Roan Calls for ‘Liveable Wage’ From Record Labels After Grammy Win

Casey Cooper-Fiske, PA Entertainment Reporter The Irish News
Singer Chappell Roan has called on record labels to provide a “liveable wage” to rising stars after winning the best new artist award at the 67th Grammy Awards. She also called on labels to provide healthcare for those at the start of their career.

The Struggle for Black Education

Randal Maurice Jelks Los Angeles Review of Books
An outstanding contribution to the history of Black education that focuses on the career of Carter G. Woodson.

Eat Less Beef. Eat More Ostrich?

Sarah Zhang The Atlantic
Ostrich is touted as a more sustainable red meat that tastes just like beef.
The truth is, greenhouse-gas emissions from food are sensitive to the exact mode of production, which vary country to country, region to region, and even farm to farm. And any analysis is only as good as the quality of the data that go into it.

Tony Kahn: Boy Fugitive in the Cold War

Paul Buhle Portside
This is a poignant tale of remembering parents in trouble, careers dashed and of steady FBI harassment. The end is not happy, except that the boy survives and makes his own life as an admired cultural commentator on radio.