Poet Tony Hoagland exposes the chicanery of "artwashing," so common in our major cultural institutions.
While streaming on Amazon is a little on the nose, the Fallout television series admirably embraces the anti-capitalist critique of the original video game franchise. Its apocalyptic alternate America feels less far-fetched every day.
This book, writes reviewer Early, "is a fine, solidly written biographical and political study of Jesse Jackson and the rise of Black presidential aspirations in the American two-party system."
Beat poet Diane di Prima reminds her readers that there is more than one form of resistance, more than one path to freedom.
Between 2020 and 2023, reported food fraud incidents, which can pose serious health risks including exposure to toxic additives, increased over 1,000%.
Institutional menace and an idealistic take on redemption sit side-by-side in Top Boy actor Ashley Walters’ empathic and occasionally over-earnest film
It’s no wonder Donald Trump was enraged by Bad Bunny’s halftime show at the Super Bowl. The Puerto Rican trap star has grown into the role of political artist, and the creativity of his music is an indictment of MAGA’s schlock-filled cultural wastela
Poet Gene Grabiner reminds us that even in the intimacy of the family one encounters intimations of past horror.
In the first years of the war, it was more than coincidental that the frontline fighters were disproportionately Black. Still, the Pentagon was willing to tolerate Black soldiers only inasmuch as they forswore cultural expressions of Blackness.
What does a new edition of Edward Said’s classic ‘Representations of the Intellectual’ reveal in the context of the crisis in Gaza?
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