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The Forward Pass โ€“ An International Recollection on Professional Sport Protest from the Bottom Up

The Left Hook

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The national insurgency against police brutality and murders has finally infiltrated the elevated ether of professional sports in America, quite spectacularly too.ย  It is both surprising and not so at the same time. ย I want to ...

The Shebeen

Mike Morgan

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Hereโ€™s a bit of a lingo lesson.ย  A shebeen, according to Wikipedia, is an illegal establishment (in Ireland, Scotland and South Africa) that specializes in the sale of distilled alcoholic beverages and is typically regarded as ...

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Today We Mourn

Abahlali baseMjondolo

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Hard Crackers is pleased to publish this recent message from Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa.ย  The message was released on the anniversary of the Soweto Revolt in 1976.ย  We thought it would ...

Homegoing KwaZulu

Salim Washington

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We had the funeral services for my mother-in-law, though between us we never really used the “in-law” designation. I was her son and she was mother dear. Grief always comes in stages, even when it is ...

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