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‘Are you now or have you ever been against genocide?’: The new repression
May 23, 2024University administrators are being called before Congress, where they must betray their own students and pledge allegiance to a new wave of repression hitting academia.
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Reading ‘Kairos’: Literary snapshot of life during socialist East Germany’s final days
May 23, 2024Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel about a young woman living through the end of the GDR has just won the International Booker Prize.
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‘Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy’ in world premiere
May 22, 2024“Mix-Mix” is an English translation of “Halo-Halo,” a dessert that’s a mixture of jellies, tapioca pearls, fruit, beans, corn, shaved ice, condensed milk and ice cream—an appropriate metaphor for the mixed cultures that came together as...
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Separate is never equal: The Daily Worker’s 1954 Brown v. Board coverage
May 17, 2024Even on the day of the decision, racist reaction was already rearing its head across the segregated South.
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‘Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation’
May 17, 2024When wealthy, Harvard-trained ultra-right Senator Tom Cotton described racial slavery as a “necessary evil” in 2020, he made two crucial admissions.
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