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Our Eyes Are Watching . . . Green Beans and Watermelon

Curtis Price

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Out with the dog on a hot muggy Alabama afternoon with temperatures skirting 100, I walked across the parking lot of the African-American church across from where I live. In the middle of the tarmac, someone ...

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Did Bernie Sanders Go Through This?

The Left Hook

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Heads up on my day.ย  I just got home and my phone has run out of juice.ย  It took about two hours and twenty minutes, courtesy of the car service, local Sheepshead Bay Russians, but that’s ...

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El Royale

James Murray

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Itโ€™s another hot Tuesday so I stop at a bar after work. Itโ€™s only a few miles from where I grew up but I havenโ€™t been in the place in at least twenty-five years. A George ...

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Connections

John Garvey

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So, this is an odd piece. On a late summer Saturday in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, my daughter and her husband did a swim-and-run in a state park. My wife and I watched their kids, three of ...

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Life in America

Hard Crackers Editors

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The following is from the affidavit appealing for a reduced sentence submitted by the lawyers for Cesar Sayoc, the man accused of sending fake pipe bombs to dozens of top Democrats at the time of the ...

The Moral Economy in the Black Rural South

Curtis Price

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(Reprinted from the July-August 2019 โ€œThe Brooklyn Rail) Once you drive out of Huntsville, within 15 minutes you run into deeply rural areas. Open fields, some cultivated, some wild; mobile homes and modest bungalows mix with ...

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Growing old in โ€œpost-recessionโ€ America

Zhandarka Kurti

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Like so many other children of aging parents, I will at some point assume the responsibility of looking after my mom. Her Social Security benefits are insufficient for her to live on and she relies on ...

The Revolutionary Moment

Noel Ignatiev

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What brings the revolutionary moment? I am not referring to the political struggle that takes place within every mass movementโ€”unions or workersโ€™ councils, soviets or provisional government, abolition or free-soil, black power or civil rights, etc.โ€”but ...

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At The Pain Clinic, North Alabama

Curtis Price

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I’m in Boaz, Sand Mountain, with a friend going to the local pain clinic. The waiting room is filled with middle-aged, rural/small-town, working-class whites who generally look in poor health. A crowded waiting room full of ...

The Black and White of It

Curtis Price

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One of my neighbors living three buildings down had his leg amputated several months ago. At first, the doctors thought it was a Brown Recluse spider bite but later figured out it was a circulation problem. ...

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