Portside

A new book makes the case for engaging with the anniversary on your own terms and taking your own meaning from it.

Left confers in South Africa without ANC

The state’s ballot is nineteen inches long, and lists sixty-one gubernatorial candidates. But where are the star applicants?

“We are also doing this to demand freedom,” said one of the workers. “We’re not treated like people. We’re treated like animals.”

As I show in my new book, “The First Emancipation,” it is in France where a national government first outlawed slavery – and indeed made steps toward racial equality.

Boots Riley’s remarkably easy confidence and visual flair in I Love Boosters is a tonic in an era of boring CGI slop. He’s one of the most compelling filmmakers working today.

They say crackdown, we say throwdown

The world’s largest advertising conglomerate has proposed merging with the company that has built detailed profiles on every American.

On the Way to a Major People’s Victory (1979), An Ideological Earthquake (1956), The Novelist Who Started the Civil War, Sort Of (1851), Standing Up for Civil Rights Isn’t Easy (1966), Municipal Workers Flex Their Muscles, But It Doesn’t Help (1971)

Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing—an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.