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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 ...

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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 ...

#NYCStripperStrike: Race, Class and Women’s Work

โ€œHoney, I guess you can sum up this business in one sentence,โ€ stripper Bobbie Bruce told reporter Jack Griffin at Minskyโ€™s Rialto Theater, a hub of early-1950s Chicago burlesque. โ€œYou grab as much sex as the ...
Waffle House

Incident at Waffle House

Curtis Price

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On July 4th, I went to a local Waffle House with a Black friend.ย ย ย Our usual Waffle House that we hit up on University Drive was packed solid so we drove to one in Five Points, a ...

Conversations with โ€œThe Enemyโ€

Curtis Price

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Last year on my then-job, work was slow. A late middle-aged RN supervisor who worked in a different wing came in to file papers. We exchanged superficial pleasantries, the mask everyone wears in everyday life. And ...

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Scottsboro

Curtis Price

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Weโ€™re driving down Route 72 Saturday morning from Huntsville to Scottsboro, a small blue collar city of fourteen thousand that the Tennessee wraps around like a fat brown snake before uncoiling down river. Scottsboro, that Alabama ...

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Guntersville, Alabama: Eugene Debs, Sweet Tea and the Quest for Cheap Housing

Curtis Price

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The first time I saw an unfurled and flown Confederate flag in Alabama was about four years ago on my first trip to Guntersville. In a small squatter trailer camp nestled in a field off Route ...

NOTHING HAPPENED

Noel Ignatiev

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by Noel Ignatiev A white NYC lawyer threatened to call ICE against two restaurant workers speaking Spanish on the job. A white woman called police against black people having a BBQ in an Oakland park. A ...

Flags of Distress

Curtis Price

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Itโ€™s the middle of the month and the eviction notices are out. Walking past peopleโ€™s doors, you see the attached white court papers, fluttering in the breeze like so many SOS flags of distress, signaling that ...

An excerpt from โ€˜If He Hollers Let Him Go,โ€™ by Chester Himes, 1945

James Murray

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posted by James Murray   โ€œโ€ฆbut as far as the problem of the Negro industrial worker is concerned, I feel that it is not so much racial as it is the problem of the masses. As ...

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