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The Evolution of Black Bookstores

Jessica Max Stein The Indypendent
21st century Black booksellers generation brings activism and business together in a way that skirts the debates of their predecessors; to them, the work is all of a piece.

Deadlier Than Gettysburg

Drew Gilpin Faust The Atlantic
How the cruelty of the Confederacy’s prison camps gave rise to the rules of war

June Jordan: A Poet of the People

Ed Rampell The Progressive
Believing poems should be for the masses, Jordan used her way with words to illuminate causes such as racial equality, Palestinians’ struggles, feminism, and gay rights in essays and reportage, as well as poetry.