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The First Thanksgiving: Separating Myth From Fact

Ruth Hopkins Teen Vogue
Ruth Hopkins, a Dakota/Lakota Sioux writer, biologist, attorney, and former tribal judge, breaks down the myths and facts about Thanksgiving and early encounters between Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.

Southern Service Workers Launch a New Union

Stephanie Luce Labor Notes
Hundreds of service workers from across the South gathered in Columbia, South Carolina, November 17-19 to launch the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW).

The Legacy of a Caged Bird

On Gene Andrew Jarrett’s “Paul Laurence Dunbar” Los Angeles Review of Books
During his lifetime, Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African American, was among the most famous poets in the United States. It is one of the great paradoxes of the early Jim Crow era. This biography sheds new light on the writer's life and work.

What if We Cancel the Apocalypse?

Joey Ayoub New Lines
How the aesthetic, utopian yet pragmatic movement of Solarpunk reimagines a future without a climate catastrophe