Books
ZeroZeroZero and the global drug trade; #BlackAF and Black affluence
May 7, 2020ZeroZeroZero, a Sky, Canal+ and Amazon series based on the Roberto (Gomorrah) Saviano book, has two things on its mind.
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L.A. in the sixties: Power to the people in the City of Angels
April 28, 2020This very readable but meticulously detailed year-by-year account has relevance far beyond its time and place.
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Red, Black, White: The Communist Party in Alabama
April 24, 2020The seeds of the Civil Rights Movement, of Black Liberation, and more were planted in the South by Communists in the Depression years.
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‘Slaying Goliath’: Diane Ravitch on the fight to save America’s public schools
April 15, 2020Diane Ravitch writes with anger—but it’s righteous anger, it’s justified and it’s what we need right now.
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Fascist admirers and collaborators: New book exposes Hitler’s American friends
April 13, 2020Needless to say, Hitler’s American Friends is a darkly informative read, a reminder that fascists and their supporters once held considerable sway in American political discourse.
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