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 deal of African American studies criticism. A distinction has sometimes been made by such critics that treats art (or […]
Letter From Huntsville: “Look Out For One Another”
by Curtis Price Through an unknown Facebook friend, I was added to a “secret” Facebook group of some 2,000-odd folks in northern Alabama, where I live. You can’t join, you have to be referred and vetted as trustworthy. I can’t call out its colorful name (which loosely translates as “Look Out For One Another [LOFOA],” […]
Unity – At Whose Cost?
by Noel Ignatiev The Palestinian American Women’s Association announced that it would boycott the January 20 Women’s March in Los Angeles. The announcement came after Scarlett Johannson was confirmed as a “Special Guest speaker” at the march. Johansson is the face of the advertising campaign of SodaStream, an Israeli company whose plant is located in […]
Alabama: “Vote or Die”
by Curtis Price The election of Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama December 12th sent shock waves through the political establishment. To put Jones’s victory in perspective, the last time a Democrat won a Senate race in Alabama was in 1992. For many in the orbit of the Democratic Party, the Alabama election signaled a shift […]
Suggestions for shutdown
Hard Crackers wants to help the nation out in its time of need; therefore we’ve drawn up the following recommendations for what the government could do during the shutdown: 1. End all drone attacks. 2. Close all solitary confinement facilities in federal prisons. 3. Eliminate border patrols. 4. End ICE raids. 5. Suspend all financial […]
“Hard Crackers, Come Again No More”
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with two editors from Hard Crackers, Noel Ignatiev and James Murray. Hard Crackers is a periodical founded in 2016 that deals with race from a perspective that has deeply informed my own. It grew out of discussions among people who had been involved with Race Traitor, a journal that ran from 1993 […]