Books
“Race News”: Chronicling the Black press and fight for justice
March 9, 2018Black journalists in the commercial press packaged their mission of ending racial discrimination within a profit-oriented, objective presentation of current events, but "race news" wasn’t immune to politics.
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“A Queerly Joyful Noise”: LGBT choruses in theory and practice
January 10, 2018This is a complicated subject with a lot of moving ideas and parts.
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Former People’s World editor Tim Wheeler on book tour
October 5, 2017Tim Wheeler says that optimism, even in these most unpredictable and difficult times, is what defines communists.
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New book illuminates history and contradictions of the early Black press
September 13, 2017Claude Barnett and the ANP welcomed left and communist support when expedient, but jettisoned it as the political winds shifted.
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Book review: Rich depiction of Pacific NW and its people
September 5, 2017Many stories are from Tim’s youth on the family dairy farm in the Dungeness River Valley.
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