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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
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