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The Music’s Back in This Region. Will the Pandemic Follow?

June 25, 2021

Post-pandemic life has started in the U.S. with bars, restaurants and concert halls filling with people and it’s bringing the party back to a region renowned for its live music scene.

A Crime On The Bayou (2021) | Trailer

June 25, 2021

Attorney Richard Sobol stands up to a racist legal system to defend Gary Duncan, a Black teenager wrongfully accused of assaulting a boy in 1966 New Orleans. In select theaters now.

Buy, Borrow, Die: How America's Ultrawealthy Stay That Way

June 25, 2021

Some of the wealthiest Americans use a strategy called Buy, Borrow, Die to dramatically reduce their tax bills while their fortunes continue to grow.

June 25, 2021

Angela Davis, America’s Best-Known Black Radical, Joins the Country’s Most Radical Union

Peter Cole CounterPunch

Davis’ induction makes more visible the long and deep ties connecting African Americans to the labor movement and anti-capitalist politics, particularly in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

June 25, 2021

After the Press Conference

Hayden Saunier Vox Populi

“Truth is we know when someone’s lying,” says the poet Hayden Saunier about some press conference. Then what do we do about it?

June 24, 2021

'We're Not Going Away!' Nonviolent Protest Over Voting Rights Ends With Arrests in DC

Jake Johnson Common Dreams

"We're saying across this country, it's time for people... to march on these Senate offices," ... "We don't need compromise and capitulation. Pass the bill! Break the filibuster!" declared Rev. William Barber.

June 24, 2021

Israel is ‘Considerably Weakened’ — As BDS Finds a Home in the Democratic Party

Philip Weiss Mondoweiss

More signs that support for Israel is cracking among U.S. progressives. Randi Weingarten, labor leader and liberal Zionist, is not condemning some locals' backing for BDS. Another sign that support for Israel is cracking among U.S. progressives.

June 24, 2021

What Really Happened on Juneteenth — And Why It’s Time for Supremacists and Their Sympathizers to Surrender

Robin Washington Jewish Daily Forward

“It’s not that Gen. Granger was giving information to the enslaved people. He was giving it to the masters” — at the barrel of a gun.

June 24, 2021

Celebrating Pride Month: Honoring the Movement to End Discrimination Against LGBTQ People Amid Record-Breaking Year for Anti-Trans Laws

Scott McCoy Southern Poverty Law Center

June is Pride Month – a time set aside to honor the Stonewall uprising, which launched the movement to end discriminatory laws against LGBTQ people – and to remember the many important cultural and legislative victories since that pivotal 1969 summer

June 24, 2021

Winged Words: Maxime Rodinson on the Prophet Mohammad

Tariq Ali London Review of Books

With Islamophobia rife in Europe and the Western hemisphere and with France’s center and far-right parties weaponizing laicity and scapegoating refugees, it’s time for engaged readers to reacquaint themselves with Rodinson’s classic study.