Culture
‘Popo and Fifina’: A love letter to Haiti from Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps
October 31, 2024Langston Hughes traveled to Haiti in April 1931 and lived in Port-au-Prince for about three months. He observed the ongoing brutal occupation of the country by U.S. Marines, along with the economic exploitation of the independent...
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A true American horror story: ‘Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum’
October 31, 2024The new book details how, before the turn toward mass incarceration in the 1970s, Black people in disproportionate numbers were institutionalized in mental hospitals, where they were assigned to forced labor regimes and other kinds of...
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‘Odd Man Out’: Theater in the dark tells a blind musician’s story
October 30, 2024"Darkness allows us to perceive the world in a new way, and we extend that perception into how we create.…"
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‘Poetry for the Many’: Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey’s anti-establishment anthology
October 28, 2024Poetry for the Many is a resource for people looking for solace and encouragement in difficult times, people who need to feel that they are part of a global movement against war, repression, and deprivation.
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Palestine at the Toronto International Film Festival
October 25, 2024The Toronto International Film Festival this year has provided an excellent service by premiering the works of nascent and veteran Palestinian cultural activists.
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