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Ardmore, Tennessee: โ€œDonโ€™t Like Your Rights Taken Away? Donโ€™t Take Away Someone Elseโ€™s!!!โ€

Curtis Price

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Driving from Huntsville to southern Tennessee, the Huntsville exurbs soon dissolve into rolling corn fields alternated with soybean patches and then the lanes shrink into just two. This stretch of north Alabama and south Tennessee is ...

Poems

Dexter Herda

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Bedroom Window Musty gray dawn trespasses into the noon hour; And one looks like the other from this side of my bedroom window. Weather stained pawn malingers from stale to sour; And one smells like the ...

Thinking about Papa Heinz

Luis Brennan

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Ketchup makes bad fake blood Because it doesnโ€™t stir the right Kind of horror or nervousness. Itโ€™s too sweet looking and gooey. The red it all wrong and dried it Doesnโ€™t leave that flat rust stain ...

On Reading Kenneth Fearingโ€™s โ€œThe Hospitalโ€

Curtis Price

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โ€œIโ€™ll never get used to this hospital smell of antiseptic, not even after all the times I visited Alice in Bellevue. Itโ€™s the smell of the grave. Think of something without that smell. Think of something ...

Italian Auto Workers Demand Red Card

The Left Hook

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The mega-rich Italian Agnelli family has bulging coffers.ย  They own the Fiat Chrysler Corporation, Ferrari, and have a controlling interest in Turinโ€™s Juventus football team, one of the premier clubs in Europe.ย  The Agnellis arenโ€™t exactly ...

Pennsylvania Sheriff Warns: Accept No Imitation

Noel Ignatiev

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Earlier this month a mysterious call came through to Dr. Mark Crucianiโ€™s office in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The caller identified himself as a sheriffโ€™s deputy from Lackawanna County and informed Cruciani that he had missed a court ...

#NYCStripperStrike: Race, Class and Women’s Work

โ€œHoney, I guess you can sum up this business in one sentence,โ€ stripper Bobbie Bruce told reporter Jack Griffin at Minskyโ€™s Rialto Theater, a hub of early-1950s Chicago burlesque. โ€œYou grab as much sex as the ...

โ€œA New Life Awaits You . . .โ€: Alabama Tenants’ Counter-Narratives to Landlord Hype

Curtis Price

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When you look at apartment websites, you are always greeted with pictures of immaculate living rooms right out of โ€œGood Housekeeping,โ€ smiling middle-class families, sparkling swimming pools and accolades such as โ€œexquisite apartment homes.โ€ย  But beneath ...
Hard Crackers

Marx and Engels on Civil War: New Collection

Review by Marcelo Badarรณ Mattos The Civil War in the United States, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Edited by Andrew Zimmerman. New York: International Publishers, 2016. Paper, $14.00. Pp. 256. This book is the second ...
Waffle House

Incident at Waffle House

Curtis Price

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On July 4th, I went to a local Waffle House with a Black friend.ย ย ย Our usual Waffle House that we hit up on University Drive was packed solid so we drove to one in Five Points, a ...