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The Last of The Wailers โ€“ A Brief Tribute to Bunny Wailer

Mike Morgan

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Bunny Wailer (Neville Oโ€™Riley Livingston) passed away last week.ย  Together with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, he made up the triumvirate that the music world knew as The Wailers.ย  He had 73 years and outlived his ...

Remembering Rush Limbaugh

Gavin Mueller

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I listened to a lot of Rush Limbaugh growing up in the 90s in Ohio. Talk radio was the de facto station when my dad was driving the car, and 610 WTVN syndicated Rush, followed by ...

โ€˜No Condescending Saviors:’ A Personal Tribute to Noel Ignatiev

Gary Fields

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Hard Crackers founding editor Noel Ignatiev died a year ago today. In his memory, we are running in full this tribute written by a longtime comrade and friend of his. We also plan to publish a ...

A Short Note on May Stevens

John Garvey

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In August of 2018, I posted an articleย titled “The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens” about the life and work of Ms. Stevens. I recently learned that she had died at the age of 95 in December of 2019.ย  ...

Remembering Noel Ignatiev with Jarrod Shanahan

Hard Crackers Editors

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In the next few weeks we will share with our readers some reflections on Noel’s political legacy that have been originally published posthumously by close friends, political collaborators, former students and also by different media outlets. ...

Rest in Power Noel Ignatiev (1940-2019)

Hard Crackers Editors

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Our hearts are heavy with the loss of our editor-in-chief, friend, and comrade Noel Ignatiev. Noel died on Saturday, November 9th at the age of 78. His passing is a tremendous loss to those fighting for ...

In memoriam: Joffre Stewart

Max G. Bernard

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Devastated. My long time friend Joffre Stewart has died. Joffre, a long time anarchist and pacifist (after serving in the military during World War 2) was a poet and was referred to in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. ...

In Memoriam: Lowell May

Kingsley Clarke and Noel Ignatiev

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Hard Crackers editor Lowell May died at his Denver home on the morning of December 19. Born in 1949, he grew up under harsh conditions on a farm near Lorimer, Iowa. He went to high school ...

Unnamed Harlem resident finds old letter

Zhandarka Kurti

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In the dusty book shelves of an unnamed Harlem residentโ€™s basement we uncovered this letter written in 1912 from the man later known as Ho Chi Minh to his father back home. Dearest father, I wanted ...
Freedom Riders, 1963

The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens

John Garvey

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May Stevens was born in 1924 and, at the age of 94, lives in New Mexico.ย  She has been, for most of her life, an artist.ย  For the last seven decades, sheโ€™s been a political artist.ย  ...