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Ghana vibes: first trip to Accra
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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The Ex-Panther
When I lived in Baltimore and went to events sponsored by the anarchist bookstore, often Iโd 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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#NYCStripperStrike: Race, Class and Women’s Work
โHoney, I guess you can sum up this business in one sentence,โ stripper Bobbie Bruce told reporter Jack Griffin at Minskyโs Rialto Theater, a hub of early-1950s Chicago burlesque. โYou grab as much sex as the ...
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Incident at Waffle House
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 ...
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Conversations with โThe Enemyโ
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
Weโre 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
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 ...
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NOTHING HAPPENED
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 ...
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Flags of Distress
Itโs the middle of the month and the eviction notices are out. Walking past peopleโs doors, you see the attached white court papers, fluttering in the breeze like so many SOS flags of distress, signaling that ...
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An excerpt from โIf He Hollers Let Him Go,โ by Chester Himes, 1945
posted by James Murray โโฆbut 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 ...