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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 ...
Editors’ Roundtable
The shooting at Douglas High School in Parkland prompted an exchange among our editors, which we are publishing here. To begin, three items: The first is from the Hard Crackers mission statement carried in every issue: ...
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Lift Every Voice
From a new book by Imani Perry, A History of the Black National Anthem “By asserting the cross-cultural and multigenre and style collage of black formalist rituals, I, like [Ralph] Ellison, am disagreeing with a good ...
A Carnival of Inclusion
The Democratic National Convention was a carnival of inclusion: black, white, gay, straight, Christians, Jews, Muslims, cis-gendered and transgenderedโall joined in proclaiming that โnothing can be wrong if it keeps our country strongโ (with the implied ...