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Bob Dylan Biopic and the Origin Story of an Electrified Maggie’s Farm

Peter Dreier Common Dreams
The film, A Complete Unknown, accurately portrays Dylan's two sides—a brilliant creative genius as a songwriter/poet and a narcissist who used and discarded people on behalf of his ambition. It tells a good story, but certainly not all the stories.

poetry

Thanksgiving Among the Almond Trees

Nels Goñi Christianson In the Black, In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss
California poet Nels Goñi Christianson describes two ways of celebrating Thanksgiving.

poetry

Gone, Baby

Suzanne Lummis In the Black, In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss
Poet Suzanne Lummis offers a bedtime story for the children of America, in which we witness the miracle of deflation.

poetry

Dear America

Marsha de la O Salt Number 7
As she travels across America, poet Marsha de la O asks her country, "Who is lost, and who isn't?"

film

28 Anti-Fascist Films

Kurt Stand The Stansbury Forum
“What is most important is not what people with unbridled power can impose on us, but rather on what we can do as human beings, as political actors.”

books

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.

food

Farming in the Dark

Diana Kruzman Ambrook Research
Chemist Feng Jiao and Robert Jinkerson, a specialist in artificial photosynthesis, contend that their system — known as “electro-agriculture” — could convert electricity into chemical energy with four times the efficiency of photosynthesis.
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