In May of 2021, in response to comments by South Carolina Senator Tim Scott that the United States was not a racist country, Tiffany D. Cross from MSNBC's "Cross Connection"… Read the rest of the article: Whom would Harriet Tubman leave behind?
In May of 2021, in response to comments by South Carolina Senator Tim Scott that the United States was not a racist country, Tiffany D. Cross from MSNBC's "Cross Connection"… Read the rest of the article: Whom would Harriet Tubman leave behind?
Watch what happens when Civil War reenactors are confronted with volunteer participants from the Black community. At first, there is a bit of confusion, then some bad-faith subterfuge on the… Read the rest of the article: "Slaves" crash a civil war enactment
"The Climate crisis is here. The Western United States is burning; much of the Northeast is underwater after a hurricane; towns in Europe are swept away by massive floods. Time… Read the rest of the article: How We Survive podcast tackles lithium's relationship to climate change
Pharmaceutical capitalism and the criminalization of addiction puts evidence-based treatment for opioid addiction out of reach for many people. Profit motives and punishment are not perspectives that lend themselves to… Read the rest of the article: "Close clinics and let patients pick up methadone at a real pharmacy"
@ARTIFA161 posts graffiti, posters, stickers, banners, postcards, and music from across the globe calling out Fascists. Antifa Artifa: anti-fascist artists. These images also highlight political movements trying to create a… Read the rest of the article: Artifa posts anti-fascist graffiti, stickers and other works of art
"How did the abandoned bicycle win its freedom? Is the rose naked, or is that her only dress? "What's hidden under your hump? said the camel to the tortoise." Born… Read the rest of the article: Questions about Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
Let It Kill You is a book by Ben McQueen. Ben McQueen is a tattoo artist and skateboarder from Indianapolis living in San Francisco. On October 28, 2022, Resolute Press… Read the rest of the article: Let It Kill You is a book about skateboarding and tattooing
On November 17, 1994, when Oscar Gómez's body was found at the bottom of a massive cliff in Santa Barbara, California, he was a familiar and popular voice on the… Read the rest of the article: Who killed the student activist Oscar Gómez?
Black Sabbath meets Ronald McDonald in this drive-thru metal extravaganza. Members include Ronald Osbourne on vocals, Slayer MacCheeze on guitars, Grimalice on bass, and The Catburglar on drums. Originally from… Read the rest of the article: Mac Sabbath is a "drive-thru metal extravaganza"
Punk, punk rock, punk politics, and punk aesthetics are global phenomena. Genealogies intersect when we recognize the relationship between different places where punk politics emerged. Tracing the relationship between punk… Read the rest of the article: The history of Latinx Punk
John Schneider's new film, To Die For, comes with a trigger warning: "This movie is intensely patriotic. If patriotism and love of country offend you in any way… watch this… Read the rest of the article: Dukes of Hazzard's Bo Duke has a new film for fellow victims of the "woke left"
In the video embedded below, Alan Watts (1915-1973), a lo-fi firebrand spiritual scholar and irreverent philosopher, begins with a discussion of the complicated and political origins of the Bible and… Read the rest of the article: Did Jesus want to be worshipped?
Women forced into medical sterilization in California now have resources for possible recourse from these consent violations. Sterilized as a result of state eugenics laws on the books since the… Read the rest of the article: Redress for forced sterilizations
Robin D.G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. Historyat UCLA. A prolific historian for the people, Dr. Kelley's research on social movements, the Black diaspora, cultural… Read the rest of the article: Freedom Dreams finds "the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve"
In 2019, the family and friends of British professional skateboarder Ben Raemers created the Ben Raemers Foundation to honor the memory of their friend and loved one. In May of… Read the rest of the article: Skateboarding and mental health
The Young Ones aired from 1982-1985 on the BBC. If you watched MTV in the US in 1986, when MTV showed music videos, The Young Ones was paired with the… Read the rest of the article: The Young Ones and the Fifth Housemate
"This extraordinary year [2020] has shown us that wherever we step back the space we leave is providing wildlife with new opportunities." — David Attenborough "Sound is life in the… Read the rest of the article: Acoustic solutions to ocean noise pollution
A new research study by Michael Halpin, "Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women," published in Gender & Society, asks, How do men who see themselves as subordinate… Read the rest of the article: Where are the lines between incel misogyny and violence?
"Faculty hiring networks in the United States exhibit a steep hierarchy in academia and across all domains and fields…." There are approximately 5,300 universities and colleges in the United States. In… Read the rest of the article: Study shows extent of hiring bias in academia: 20% of schools produce 80% of tenure-track profs
Colonialism, empire, capitalism, secrecy, fascism, oil, domination, and power are the topics of the publishing endeavor The American Empire Project, published by Metropolitan Books. "The American Empire Project is a… Read the rest of the article: The American Empire publishing project