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April 24, 2021

Slave Rebellions and Mutinies Shaped the Age of Revolution

Steven Hahn Boston Review

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

April 24, 2021

Why is AFL-CIO So Worried About Its Vermont Affiliate?

Steve Early CounterPunch

Last November, Trumka tried, unsuccessfully, to block any state convention discussion of a general strike contingency plan in the event of a constitutional crisis (of the sort which did occur on January 6).

April 24, 2021

The Capitol Raid and Pandemic Can Help Us Empathize with Venezuelans

Leonardo Flores Venezuelanalysis.com

It would be hard for people in the United States to understand the emotional toll caused by having the economy upended if we weren’t living through a pandemic that upended everything. Venezuelan sanctions are like a pandemic going for years.

April 24, 2021

Rashida Tlaib on Defunding the Police: “Property Should Not Have More Value than Human Life”

Rashida Tlaib In These Times

The democratic socialist congresswoman explains why the U.S. needs to tackle systemic racism by investing in social programs, arguing that “police can’t be the answer to all these ills in our country.”

April 24, 2021

The Invention of Whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea

Robert P Baird The Guardian

Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world.

April 24, 2021

Monk: A Legacy of influence both past and present

Doug Hall ArtSparksMusic

If legendary jazz musicians were collected together in one giant jigsaw puzzle and each musician was one piece – Thelonious Monk’s individual piece would be impossible to cut out.

July 18, 2014

Friday Nite Videos -- July 18, 2014

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Spike Jonze Presents: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma. If Latinos Said the Stuff White People Say. Johnny Winter: Live at the Fillmore East. Reggae Got Soul. Murder on Abortion Row.

Spike Jonze Presents: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma

July 18, 2014

An amazing collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and a young dancer in LA, Lil Buck. Someone who knows Yo-Yo Ma had seen Lil Buck on YouTube and put them together. The dancing is Lil Buck's own creation and unlike anything I've seen. Hope you enjoy. -- Spike Jonze

If Latinos Said the Stuff White People Say

July 18, 2014

"You're just not what I picture when I think of a white person."

Johnny Winter: Live at the Fillmore East

July 18, 2014

Johnny Winter (Feb 23, 1944-July 16, 2014) was one of the guitar greats. Here is his haunting, soulful 1971 performance at the Fillmore East (Be Careful With a Fool).