Emma Goldman’s Ice Cream Parlor
Radical Teacher
Poet-Teacher Susan Gubernat brings the life—and passion --of Emma Goldman into the 21st Century.
tv
Ted Lasso's Lack Of LGBTQ+ Representation Creates A Problem On Two Fronts
Digital SPy
There's one area where Ted Lasso might be sticking a little too close to the source material – its lack of LGBTQ+ characters.
poetry
Capitalism
Rattle
Illinois poet Elaine Fowler Palencia reveals one of the great secrets of evangelical capitalism, duping the consumer.
books
Class and Inequality: The Classroom in Crisis
Boston Review
Education is struggle. Of the books under review, one shows community college students pioneering reading methods and expanding canons that came late to the Ivies. The second looks at a key figure in the African American intellectual tradition.
books
Strong and Certain: On Deesha Philyaw’s “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies”
Los Angeles Review of Books
This award-winning collection of short stories, writes reviewer Simms, "stands within a tradition of writing that’s about the beauty and burden of Black life within oppressive social systems."
food
On Salt and The Impossible Pursuit of Food Sanctity
From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy
Alicia Kenned who writes a weekly newsletter on food culture, politics, and media, says it’s no exaggeration that nostalgia can drive our food lives or that watching how someone salts their food tells quite a bit about their entire cooking philosophy
tv
Experts Explain What Physical Gets Right About Eating Disorders
Bustle
The new AppleTV+ series explores an aspect of eating disorders rarely depicted on TV.
books
The Kremlin Letters
The Guardian
This newly published edition of this exchange of letters between the leaders of the three major countries of the anti-fascist alliance sheds new light on an almost forgotten aspect of the World War II years.
books
United States of Amnesia. The Tulsa Massacre
London Review of Books
A noted historian digs deep into the latest work by an equally eminent scholar who spent much of his career fruitfully exposing the 1921 massacre of thousands of black Tulsa citizens. The book and the review coincided with the mass-murder’ centennial
film
One Good Thing: A Family Drama That Takes the Deaf Audience Seriously
Vox
CODA is a big-hearted crowdpleaser about a teen, her dreams, and her family.
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