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Iowa Bluffs
“Indeed, we are all implicated in Iowa.”ย ย โHeather Anne Swanson, โThe Banality of the Anthropoceneโ Crossing the Mississippi River from Illinois into Iowa by car is an almost effortless glide, eliding entirely the forceful pull of ...
How Did I Get Here?, part 3: Iowa City Activism in the 1970s
The following is the third in a series of three excerpts from David Ranney’s longer piece “Reflections: Well, How Did I Get Here?” After leaving graduate school in 1966, I entered what I have called my ...
How Did I Get Here?, part 2: Rudy
The following is the second in a series of three excerpts from David Ranney’s longer piece “Reflections: Well, How Did I Get Here?” Prior to going away to college, my interaction with Black people had been ...
How Did I Get Here?, part 1: On My Futile Attempt to Become a High School Athlete
What follows is an excerpt from a longer piece that explores how a red, white and blue diaper baby, raised by conservative Republican parents in a largely conservative Republican and all white suburb in a conservative ...
A Rainy Night in Georgia
In 1977, I was a signaler (radio operator) in the South African Army, the infantry. I was stationed in a camp called Mpacha, which was a few hundred yards from the border of Zambia in the ...
Screening Slave Revolt
Thereโs a line of thinking that calls out the problem of โslavery moviesโโthe apparent overabundance of depictions of Black people being enslaved, the way those depictions can too comfortably glide into voyeuristic pleasure at Black suffering. ...
On Sixto Rodriguez โ The Sugar Man
Sixto Rodriguez, the Detroit singer and songwriter, died on August 8, 2023. He was 81 years of age. What follows is a short essay I wrote about him in July, 2012, the day after seeing the ...
A Small Slice of Private Life
For a few years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I had the good fortune to be in a relationship with Clem Maharaj, a former jazz drummer from Trinidad whose mother had taken the precaution ...
National Past-Time
Let’s just get this out of the way first: Rob Manfred is a weasel. In case you don’t know, Manfred is the commissioner of Major League Baseball, and, while you would think a love or even ...
Why I burned the Mediatheque…
Introduction On June 27, 2023, 17 year old Nahel Merzouk was driving a car in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, when two motorcycle cops stopped him. One of the passengers said that an officer threatened Nahel, ...