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Waiting

Geneffa Jahan Porter Gulch Review 2024
In Geneffa Jahan's poem "Waiting" the speaker awaits her death as if it were an abusive lover.

It Is a Coup

Carole Cadwalladr The Power
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong. From the author that first exposed the Cambridge Analytical scandal.

Don’t Scapegoat Arab Americans

Dr. James J. Zogby Arab American Institute
Instead of blaming the people they let down, the Harris campaign needs to look in the mirror and find fault with itself. Arab Americans and their concerns were given such short shrift by the campaign, it is wrong to hold them responsible for the loss

Upwardly Minded: The Reconstruction Rise of a Black Elite

Lawrence Otis Graham The New York Times
This book is the story of Daniel Murray, the assistant librarian of the Library of Congress from 1881-1922, and of the milieu and fate of the Reconstruction-era African American government workers and officials in Washington, DC.