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“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 ...

This Mongrel Nation

Curtis Price

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โ€œAmerican culture, even in its most rigidly segregated precincts, is patently and irrevocably composite. It is, regardless of all the hysterical protestations of those who would have it otherwise, incontestable mulatto . . .Indeed, for all ...
Freedom Riders, 1963

The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens

John Garvey

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May Stevens was born in 1924 and, at the age of 94, lives in New Mexico.ย  She has been, for most of her life, an artist.ย  For the last seven decades, sheโ€™s been a political artist.ย  ...
Self-in-NYC-1980

Remembering David McReynolds

John Garvey

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A friend who spent many years in the Catholic Worker-inspired anti-war movement sent me an email about the death of David McReynolds and a link to a collection of photos taken by McReynolds throughout his adult ...

Beyond A Boundary

Curtis Price

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On a job in an upscale Baltimore assisted-living facility that I worked at for far too long, going to work meant dealing with a running quasi-racial tension where lines were sharply drawn and people adhered to ...

Ghana vibes: first trip to Accra

Salim Washington

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My preparation began before even landing in Accra it would seem. It was interesting as I went via Namibia Air and stopped in Windhoek and Lagos before reaching my destination. In Johannesburg the Ghanaians on the ...

Letter from Italy

Ferruccio Gambino

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Thanks for sending me the latest issue of “Hard Crackers.โ€ It is an excellent issue. It has confirmed my view that we need a similar publication in Southern Europe and particularly in this country. TV news ...
Black Panthers

The Ex-Panther

Curtis Price

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When I lived in Baltimore and went to events sponsored by the anarchist bookstore, often Iโ€™d notice the presence of one or two ex-Panthers, stray corks bobbing in an ocean of youthful whiteness. They stayed to ...
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