Redlining
Steel Toe Review
The Alabama-based poet Ashley M. Jones has a thing or two to say about “redlining” (aka housing discrimination).
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Why is the Workplace a Dictatorship?
Organizing Work
A deep dive into why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can't see it.
Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
New York Journal of Books
Looking at the USA through the media mind of the country's ex-reality show star, cable news addicted, twitter-obsessed president.
The Stunning Achievement of Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet”
The New Yorker
"It’s a freedom movie; it’s not a slavery movie. It exists in a very perilous and conflicted time in our country, but it’s really about freedom and what you’re willing to do for it—not just for you, but for others." - Kasi Lemmons
When Efforts To Eat 'Clean' Become An Unhealthy Obsession
NPR/The Salt
When a healthful eating pattern goes too far, it may turn into an eating disorder that scientists are just beginning to study.
Ava DuVernay, 'Queen Sugar' Executive Producer Teaming for TNT Labor-Union Drama
Hollywood Reporter
Kat Candler will write the Texas-set project about a woman who leads the state's biggest strike.
CNN Report: Rise in Sexual Assault, Reprisals in the Military (2016)
As You Were: The Military Review
Poet and Army veteran Karen Skolfield sees sexual assault in the military that “no one takes…seriously.”
Hitler: Still Messing With Our Heads
London Review of Books
Two new books on the fascist leader walk different paths; one identifying Hitler as key to virtually every juncture of the party’s rise and fall while the other looks more toward his racial worldview as profoundly preoccupied with ‘Anglo-America.
New Left Memories
Portside
Two new memoirs portray the activist left over the last half-century.
Interview with John Sayles: "If They Can Do It by Busting a Union, They’ll Do It”
Slate
John Sayles on his labor-uprising masterpiece Matewan, as it enters the Criterion Collection.
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