Culture
‘This is the Way We Rise’: Hawaiian poetry in motion
February 19, 2021A poetic short about Polynesian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio that recently screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival
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‘41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers’
February 19, 202141st & Central zooms in on what the Panthers were probably most widely known for: Audacious, fearless militancy.
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‘The Mandalorian’ season two: Not cancel but carnivore culture
February 18, 2021One of the surprise hits of the contemporary streaming era is The Mandalorian, the first original series on Disney+. A surprise not because it was a hit—any Star Wars spinoff is guaranteed to have a wide...
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‘Faith in the Masses’: Communist Party history gives something to believe in
February 17, 2021This book of essays celebrating the CPUSA's 100 years is heartfelt, reverent at times, hyper-romantic at others, and decidedly not uncritical.
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‘Agent Sonya,’ a biography of intrepid antifa spy Ursula Kuczynski
February 16, 2021For a couple of decades in the 1930s and 1940s, she was among the USSR’s most important windows to the outside world.
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