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July 4th: Whose Independence Day is it?
July 7, 2020Who really gained their independence on July 4, 1776?
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‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’: A fine new documentary about a courageous life
July 6, 2020Elder Lewis told his young grandson that sometimes good trouble would be needed to do what is right.
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‘One Dyke’s Theater’ a monument to decades of lesbian life and creativity
July 6, 2020The book is suffused with an evident sense of accomplishment across a decades-long career, while at the same time showing moments of self-doubt and -criticism.
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Anti-slavery solidarity united Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, and British workers
June 25, 2020Reviving a forgotten history of anti-slavery solidarity.
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Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]
June 25, 2020Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.
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