Culture

Compelling account of inspirational Black activist Claudia Jones in new booklet

January 8, 2021 By Morning Star

David Horsley’s focus is on Jones’s life in advancing class, race, and gender resistance to the racist system of imperialism in what George Jackson called “the belly of the beast.”

New book: Indonesia was model for anti-communist massacres, U.S. complicity

January 7, 2021 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

In many places, to whisper “Jakarta” or scrawl the word on public surfaces served as a warning to activists.

The best films of DOC NYC 2020

January 5, 2021 By Bill Meyer

You can now attend many great world festivals, and for much less the cost. Online.

‘American Utopia’: Still making sense

January 4, 2021 By Michael Berkowitz

Byrne and director Spike Lee have combined to reexamine themes they both have explored individually over the years.

A new year poem for Latin America, ‘La Paciente’

January 4, 2021 By Peter Lownds

Latin America lies on a hospital gurney after yet another amputation...