Cruise ships are big—the ships are incredibly large and the number of worldwide passengers grows steadily. Many of the big ships are four football fields long, a half football field wide and almost a football field high (imagine the field standing upright on an end zone). Estimates for 2019 are that 20 million people went on […]
A Short Note on May Stevens
In August of 2018, I posted an article titled “The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens” about the life and work of Ms. Stevens. I recently learned that she had died at the age of 95 in December of 2019. According to a long obituary in The New York Times, she died of Alzheimer’s disease after a long stay […]
Warding off Loneliness at Walmart: the Misadventures of a Former Urbanite
Since my move to Tennessee besides acclimating to my new job, my life has revolved around ordering items on Amazon Prime, swiping left on Tinder and driving to the local Walmart Supercenter. Tennessee ranks eighth in the nation for the number of Walmart Supercenters. There are 117 Supercenters in Tennessee, about 14 for every-one million […]
Interview with Matt Peterson of Woodbine
What is Woodbine? Woodbine is a common, autonomous, experimental space in Ridgewood, Queens, opened up by a group of friends in the beginning of 2014. The idea behind it was to open up an organizing space in a neighborhood where we ourselves would simultaneously relocate and live. Woodbine has never simply been about […]
Remembering Noel Ignatiev with Jarrod Shanahan
In the next few weeks we will share with our readers some reflections on Noel’s political legacy that have been originally published posthumously by close friends, political collaborators, former students and also by different media outlets. The two pieces we present below are authored by one of our editors and Noel’s friend, Jarrod Shanahan. The […]
Harlem Homecoming
By Salim Washington *The following originally appeared as a Facebook post.* I got in late the night before last and walked the streets of my old neighborhood, mainly in search of a meal and some snacks to bring back to the ‘tel. It wasn’t exactly surreal, but indeed the “new Harlem” is in full effect. […]