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Lauren Michele Jackson
Lauren Michele Jackson is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Chicago. Her book of essays about race and appropriation is forthcoming from Beacon Press.
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Sorry To Bother You Is the Anti-Capitalist Black Comedy We’ve Been Waiting For
Boots Riley’s new film shows how black liberation and labor politics are enmeshed. And it’s funny. MORE
Culture · July 3, 2018
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Work Couldn’t Come at a Better Time
In Barracoon, published 58 years after her death, the Harlem Renaissance writer interviews the last known survivor of a slave ship. MORE
Culture · May 3, 2018