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Fanon Can’t Save You Now

Todd Cronan Los Angeles Review of Books
This newly published collection of newspaper columns enriches our understanding of this singly important revolutionary theorist and activist.

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First Peanut Museum in the U.S.

Gastro Obscura Atlas Obscura
The Spanish and Portuguese introduced peanuts to Africa from where they were transported to America via the slave trade; the word goober is the Kimbundu word, nguba, meaning “kidney shaped.”

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Can the Senate Restore Majority Rule?

Michael Tomasky The New York Review of Books
Senate filibuster, invented to uphold slavery, needs abolishing before any progressive legislation passes. The author offers an insider’s account of how reactionary politicians use the upper house to repress working people and hamstring democracy.
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