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Itโ€™s All About Me

Joshua Machlin

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One of these things is not like the other: a marriage collapses – a global pandemic takes hold. Thatโ€™s what I tried to tell myself as I nosed at my overturned life like a furtive lizard ...

โ€œI experienced a lot of violent shit and never once did it cross my mind to call the policeโ€: A conversation with STiCKii and ShaeShae

Hard Crackers Editors

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Having spent the last decade organizing against police violence and for queer youth of color in Springfield, MA, STiCKii and ShaeShae break down their thoughts on the protests against police violence. STiCKii: My dad was black ...

Am I Allowed to Breathe?

Eric King

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Am I allowed to breathe? Is that a punishable offense? Am I allowed to feel Is that a shot? Are my thoughts read like my letters scanned and stored to be used against me later My ...

“So Are White People”: A Discussion of Race, Class, and Police Violence

JS: Last week President Trump was asked about the epidemic of Black people murdered by police in the United States. His response was: โ€œSo are white people. More white people, by the way.โ€ย  TA: I have ...

TGIF

Mike Morgan

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When I was a young teenager, the local Catholic parish, The Church of the Holy Trinity, would sponsor what they called a Friday Night Social. ย This was held at the Norwegian Hall, right across from the ...

CoreCivic Responds to Hard Crackers

Hard Crackers Editors

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Well, well, well, imagine our surprise when we received an email message from Ryan Gustin, the Public Affairs Manager of CoreCivic, the outfit that operates the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Tennessee, in response to an ...

Dead Teachers Can’t Teach

Zhandarka Kurti

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Today, August 3rd teachers in Knoxville, Tennessee report to work. Despite climbing COVID rates and fears and anxieties of teachers, parents and students, the superintendent of Knox County schools has not backtracked from his plan to ...

Killing Time

Tim Bruno

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You can hear a sulking refrain from some corners of the internet lately, usually from armchair revolutionaries, celebrity leftists, or just the โ€œextremely onlineโ€: the militant phase of the 2020 uprising against police terror is overโ€”liberal ...

Evictions = Death

Zhandarka Kurti

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Yesterday morning, two masked protestors dropped a banner from the roof of the New Orleans First City Court. It read: โ€œEvictions = Deathโ€ Locking arms and banging on pots and pans, protestors blocked people, some of ...

“Phillip My Dear”: The Mighty Sparrow Turns 85

Mike Morgan

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In the early 1980s when I was cabbing for a living, there was a NYC radio station that devoted all of its Sunday programming to reggae and calypso music. The deejays knew their stuff, and they ...
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