"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will." Frederick Douglas Lincoln did not free enslaved people; enslaved people freed themselves. Lincoln may have signed a… Read the rest of the article: "The Christmas Uprising" in Jamaica, 1831, heralded the end of slavery in the British Empire

 From the 60 Minutes archive comes this story from 2014, when they "first attempted to answer the age-old question: does your dog really love you?" "Chaser," the smartest dog… Read the rest of the article: Chaser, smartest dog in the world, learned from social inference

What do Christian Bale, Jim Caviezel, Willem Dafoe, Will Ferrell, Ralph Fiennes, John Legend, and Ewan McGregor have in common, apart from being actors? They have all played Jesus Christ… Read the rest of the article: Jesus Christ may have had short hair

The new arrangements of these classic songs of struggle, revolt, desire, and transformation released in this album were made to sing along to. And if you do not know the… Read the rest of the article: Listen to these new covers of classic fighting songs

The most recent issue of California History is available here for free. In a special issue dedicated to "New Histories of Black California," the editor, Mary Ann Irwin, offers this… Read the rest of the article: New histories of Black California

Do you love cockatiels? Do you want to learn how to care for them, tame them, conviviate with them, and much more? Or do you want to watch adorable videos… Read the rest of the article: Yes, cockatiels can tap-dance.

Norman Lear is one of the essential writers, producers, and directors of politically provocative sitcoms in television's long, long, long history. Addressing social issues like racism, capitalism, labor union organizing,… Read the rest of the article: Enjoy these Christmas Episodes of "The Norman Lear Effect"

Judd Legum just published "Meet the Florida English teacher trying to ban 150 books from school libraries," at Popular Information, his Substack site. Responsible for 148 of 150 challenges to… Read the rest of the article: Meet Vicki Baggett, Florida's anti-Woke pro-Confederate would-be book-banner

Digable Planets was a trip in the early 1990s and can still take you out of this world, or reveal familiarities, perhaps forgotten, in this world. DP consisted of Ishmael… Read the rest of the article: 90s hip hop trio Digable Planets' "The Art of Easing" still out of this world

Before Salma Hayek starred in Robert Rodriguez's western action film Desperado (1995), alongside Antonio Banderas, Rodriguez's and Quentin Tarantino's From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), and her portrayal of Frida Kahlo… Read the rest of the article: Think Salma Hayek's breakout hit was Desperado? Watch Midaq Alley

We all know people who think they are the best at what they do. The best drive, the best athlete, the best drink maker, the best, the best, the best.… Read the rest of the article: David Dunning himself explains why incompetent people think they're amazing

You may have heard the phrase "big man history." Suppose you grew up in the United States. In that case, you might have learned that "Lincoln Freed the slaves" or… Read the rest of the article: How workers built America

Check out the Corrections Documentary Project organized by Ashley Hunt. The first discusses the impact of private prison industries on public prisons, the war on terror, immigration, and border control.… Read the rest of the article: The Corrections Project documentary series tackles America's carceral state

This post on documentaries about prisons and the carceral state highlights perhaps the most well-known prison rebellion in the history of the United States at Attica State Prison in upstate… Read the rest of the article: What happened at Attica

In a recent December 19, 2022 interview on KJAZZ's The Show, recently elected Secretary of State in Arizona, Adrian Fontes, who beat out Trump-backed election denier, Oathkeeper, and January 6th… Read the rest of the article: Arizona's MAGA fascists are sore losers—and well deserving of the f-word

Last year, followers of QAnon influencer Michael Protzman (aka Negative48) organized a gathering of Q-Anon followers in Dallas, Texas, in Dealey Plaza, where John F. Kennedy was shot and killed,… Read the rest of the article: QAnon might be surprised to know that Lee Harvey Oswald took LSD as a Marine

Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary psychiatrist, political theorist, and spokesperson for the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), wrote both "A Dying Colonialism and his 1961 anti-colonial manifesto The Wretched of the… Read the rest of the article: Frantz Fanon's Christmas Eve story

MJBiz Daily reports on Multimillion dollar CEO Salaries while tens of thousands are in prison for the same thing. What happened to the days when you could call your plug,… Read the rest of the article: Thousands of weed users are still in jail. Marijuana CEOs rake in millions.

Vancouver, Canada, 1907. Colorizing pictures is magical. Colorizing life with difference is also magical. Akin to time travel, colorizing emphasizes a collapsing and expansion of vision. Sight seen and seeing… Read the rest of the article: Colorized film of daily life from the early 20th Century

In 2020, Spanish poet Fernando de Val published El Método Bunbury (The Bunbury Method) about the lyrics of Enrique Bunbury, the lead singer of the Spanish rock band Heroes del… Read the rest of the article: Bunburying: to write in the style of Spanish lyricist Enrique Bunbury