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Get Up Stand Up | Skip and Cedella Marley

January 22, 2021

For this version, we added Skip and Cedella Marley, Malian blues rock band Songhoy Blues, harmonica virtuoso Lee Oskar and an excerpt of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

Using Your Voice Is a Political Choice | Amanda Gorman

January 22, 2021

Amanda Gorman, who shone at the inauguration ceremonies this week, explains, "Poetry has never been the language of barriers. It's always been the language of bridges."

Same Script. New Faces Tell a Different Story.

January 22, 2021

Kamala Harris takes the oath of office as Vice President of the United States from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

January 22, 2021

What Reconstruction Teaches Us About White Nationalism Today

Fabiola Cineas Vox

Historian Eric Foner on the long tradition of white nationalists clashing with Black people exercising their rights.

January 22, 2021

Your Last Opportunity: Let's Make Waves Together

Portside

Because of Portside, a lot of people who are determined to make their own history will have the tools to do it -- the emotional sustenance, the information, the analysis, the connections -- to meet the extraordinary situation we all confront.

January 22, 2021

The Labor Movement Has a Game Plan for the Biden Era

JEFF SCHUHRKE In These Times

Lists side by side of what Trump did against unions and what Biden wants to do for unions

This time, unions intend to get something done.

January 22, 2021

Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying

Noor Hindi Poetry

The Palestinian-American poet Noor Hindi does not “write about flowers,” but about the effects of colonization on her people.

January 21, 2021

‘The Hill We Climb’: Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem Has Captivated America. Read It Here

Amanda Gorman NewsOne

Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first youth poet laureate, captivated the hearts of Americans and likely anyone else who was listening to her deliver the Inauguration poem on Wednesday. The 22-year-old became the nation’s youngest inaugural poet.

January 21, 2021

Progressives Urge Biden to Abandon GOP Outreach, Move Swiftly on Bold Package

Jake Johnson Common Dreams

"A Republican minority shouldn't be allowed to hold the nation's economic recovery and public health hostage."

January 21, 2021

Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight

Aleksandar Hemon Literary Hub

Written two years ago, over the controversy created by inviting Steven Bannon to "discuss fascism" at a public forum, the conclusions of this article are relevant for today, with the coup of January 6 and the pardon of Bannon by Donald Trump.