Before the Gaza Genocide: Thoughts on Hersey’s the Wall
Poet Sam Friedman brings us back to the walls around Gaza before the after.
poetry
Memorial Day
For California poet Joe Zaccardi our holiday of memory brings back wartime scenes of flying and hope of rescue.
books
Review: White Terror; Black Trauma: Resistance Poems About Black History
Louisiana Literature
One of the recurring themes of the collection: the ways in which the scars caused by slavery and other forms of racial violence in America linger, influencing and echoing future events within a chronology of traumas.
books
How the Black Meme Turns a Trope Into a Trap
Hyperallergic
Legacy Russell’s Black Meme argues that owning, replicating, and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination.
tv
The Big Cigar Review: Black Panther History Gets a Hollywood Makeover
AV Club
The improbable story of Huey P. Newton’s escape to Cuba—with the help of a pair of movie producers—is stretched thin in this Apple TV+ miniseries
food
Why Gene Banks Aren’t Enough To Save the World’s Food
Long Now
The Plant Genetic Resources Bank preserved the seeds of 160,000 varieties of crops and plant seeds from around the world; in the war, many were reduced to ash.
books
Oh Say AOC
Bookforum
This new book is a chronicle of the Democratic Party’s left flank
film
Repo Man at 40: A Journey Deep Into the Heart of LA Punk in the Age of Reagan
Hollywood Progressive
Set against the corrupt, soulless “greed is good” (or was it greed is god?) era of Reaganomics, the punk characters of Repo Man consist of cynical suburban youth...
The Food Blogger Cooking Through Gaza’s Hunger Crisis
Bon Appetit
In a refugee camp, Hamada Shaqoura turns aid packages into pizza wraps, curry, and “Gazan style” tacos, gaining internet-wide attention. On Instagram, he offers the world a glimpse into the scarcity and ingenuity that define Palestinian survival.
tv
Why Did It Take 30 Years for a Latino Character To Join the Core X-Men on TV?
AV Club
The Disney+ series X-Men '97 finally shines a light on Sunspot, the first Latino character to be a core part of a televised X-Men team.
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