Book Review
“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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Review of “Reclaiming Gotham” misses de Blasio’s significance
November 15, 2017Bill de Blasio's win was a historic defeat of twenty-year Wall Street-Republican control of our city and a rejection of the discredited Democratic leadership’s neoliberal appeasement policies.
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Reclaiming Gotham: New York’s Bill de Blasio and urban American politics
November 3, 2017Veteran Latino journalist Juan Gonzalez presents a basically optimistic view not only of New York City’s recent progress, but also that of many other American cities.
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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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