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Hard Crackers Issue One Spring 2016

Louis Proyect Reviews Hard Crackers

Louis Proyect

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We are reprinting here two reviews of Hard Crackers by Louis Proyect, columnist, film reviewer and blogger, one from last week and one from two years ago: September 28, 2018 The latest issue of Hard Crackersย is ...

Unnamed Harlem resident finds old letter

Zhandarka Kurti

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In the dusty book shelves of an unnamed Harlem residentโ€™s basement we uncovered this letter written in 1912 from the man later known as Ho Chi Minh to his father back home. Dearest father, I wanted ...

Google User Reviews of US Jails and Prisons

Erin Cully

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People across the US are taking to Google user reviews with grievances about the jails and prisons where they and their loved ones are held.

“Stand Up and Be Counted”: Aretha, Sixties Soul, and Power

Curtis Price

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I was never a fan of Motown and sixties R&B; it came a decade before I came of age and I was never retroactively especially drawn to it. But that musical era still brings back memories ...

The future of labor unions

Noel Ignatiev

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Heard on the radio this morning: Gus Atsas, newly-elected president of United Steelworkers Local 1014, which has about 2,020 members at U.S. Steel Gary Works (which once employed 27,000 people and where your correspondent had the ...

Three barbers working furiously… and a fourth murdered

Kingsley Clarke

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It has become a tradition in Chicago for black barbers to give free haircuts to neighborhood schoolboys during the last days before school commences. (Chicago Public Schools open Tuesday.) I walked by the neighborhood barber shop ...