Portside

A Welcome and an Introduction to a magazine of Black politics and culture.

With a death toll expected to surpass 100,000, how will the nation come to terms with what happened and move forward?

Review of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars by Tara Zahra (W. W. Norton & Company, 2023).

Fox News stands naked, and more media world shockers

Laura Poitras' "All the beauty and the Bloodshed" is a powerful documentary about Nan Goldin’s life and work against the Sackler family and their role in the opioid epidemic. The film has been nominated for an Academy Award as Best Documentary.

Police officers’ go-to defense against civil suits allows them to violate the Constitution with impunity.

Two key questions confront labor: should unions focus on organizing workers with major strategic leverage in the economy? Or should they welcome any workers willing to fight, since that organizing can constitute a major catalyst for other workers?

Students are members of families and communities, and they enter the classroom with different resources and responsibilities. Inclusive classrooms require instructors to demonstrate awareness, empathy and flexibility around these differences.

By a 93% margin, graduate workers at the University of Southern California have voted 1,599 to 122 in favor of joining the Graduate Student Workers Organizing Committee-United Auto Workers (GSWOC-UAW)

Dark grocery stores exist solely for delivery purposes. There are no customers to shop the aisles, and there are no checkout lines; it is less like an ordinary grocery store and more like a shipping center hidden under the façade of a grocery store.