Culture

We Caught Up with Tkay Maidza, Akenya and Angry Blackmen to Talk About Their Sonic World Building

With summer festival season behind them, musicians Tkay Maidza, Akenya and Angry Blackmen look ahead.

DMB (D-M Brown)

ViewpointPalestineCulture

What Happened to Protest Music?

The success of Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" offers hope for a resurgence of protest music.

Ivie Ani

PalestineInterviewCulture

Poetry Against Imperialism

Mosab Abu Toha, Safia Elhillo, José Olivarez and Jake Skeets discuss the power of poetry in genocidal times.

Porsha Olayiwola

CultureDepartments

Freedom of Expression, Unless It’s Your Hair

To dismantle texturism, we first need to acknowledge its existence.

J. Patrick Patterson

FeaturePalestineCulture

June Jordan on Palestine and American Delusions

In these excerpts of "Life After Lebanon" and "Waking Up in the Middle of Some American Dreams," June Jordan insists on the ever-present need for coalition building across difference.

Sherell Barbee and June Jordan

FeatureCulture

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship

In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.

Sherell Barbee and Toni Morrison

Culture

Punk Rock Karaoke

A love letter to Midwestern punks.

Bianca Xunise

Culture

Reflections on the 10-year Anniversary of the Ferguson Protests

I don’t blame Michael Brown for having a smoking habit. Nor will I blame the boy for stealing a pack of smokes on August 9, 2014.

Sherell Barbee and Jacqui Germain

InterviewCulture

Goodbye Julia Brings Sudan Front and Center

Director Mohamed Kordofani discusses how the film became a powerful exploration of injustice and reconciliation.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Culture

No, JoJo Siwa Did Not Invent Gay Pop

Let’s not erase the icons that came before us.

Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo

LaborCulture

Weaving a Feminist Movement

Women in Bengaluru are unraveling patriarchy, stitch by stitch, song by song.

Panthea Lee (李佩珊)

CultureClimate

This Earth Day, Common Ground Urges us to Rethink Our Relationship With Soil

Regenerative agricultural practices can be transformative, but only if we let them.

Siri Chilukuri

PalestineCulture

The Protest Song the IDF Tried to Silence

More than 40 years after the master copy was seized by Israeli forces, Zeinab Shaath's “The Urgent Call of Palestine” will be reissued on March 26.

Iman Husain

PalestineCulture

Digital Resources for a Free Palestine: A Roundup

In the face of Israel's attacks on Palestinian cultural institutions, we've compiled a list of resources to center and honor Palestinian culture.

Iman Husain

Culture

One Portrait Was Too Many. Now There Are 110.

Nayana LaFond’s Portraits in RED series centers the “silent crisis” facing Indigenous women

Sherell Barbee

PalestineCulture

Letters From Gaza

“I yearn for our voices to echo across the globe with the truth, reaching out to those who seek it.”

Sherell Barbee

PalestineCulture

Heba Zagout, We Will Not Forget You

Aya Ghanameh

ViewpointCulture

Why Leftists Should Read The Man Who Changed Colors

"It is critically important that Leftists and progressives understand the complexity of humans rather than demonizing or idealizing anyone."

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

CultureThe Right-Wing Issue

Republicans Can’t Stop Lying About Their Base

Party of the People exemplifies Republicans’ populist bait and switch.

Sarah Posner

DispatchCulture

Striking a Chord for Change: The Poor People’s Campaign for Revolution

In an effort to record their first album of movement songs, the New York State chapter of the Poor People’s Campaign is tapping into an old organizing tradition with hopes of inspiring change.

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

DispatchCulture

This Chicago Nightclub is Reimagining Safety Through Community Care

"What's a bigger liability? People using substances … or somebody dying from an overdose in your bathroom when you could have had something to prevent that overdose?”

Sonal Soni

PalestineCultureEn Español

Carta de Gaza: "El canto de los pájaros en un momento; los misiles al siguiente."

"Esto es Gaza, una existencia amarga, en la que cada día nos acercamos más al borde del abismo."

Eman Ashraf Alhaj Ali

PalestineCulture

Letter From Gaza: "Birdsong One Minute, Missiles the Next"

"We live a bitter existence, facing the specter of death daily, under the weight of an unjust oppressor."

Eman Ashraf Alhaj Ali

ViewpointCulture

Climate Disaster Is Here—and the State Will Never Save Us

"States demonstrate, again and again, that not only do they not protect the Earth, they facilitate its destruction." Dean Spade on the promise of speculative fiction and a review of The Ministry for the Future and The Deluge.

Dean Spade