Patrick Chura
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Culture
Albert Maltz’s long-suppressed civil rights novel is rediscovered—and still relevant
January 23, 2024A Long Day in a Short Life, just released in a beautiful new paperback edition by Alma Books, is available for the first time since 1957. You’ve probably never heard of it.
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Culture
Review: ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy’
December 21, 2023Thrall’s telling of Abed’s story enumerates and catalogues the poisonous indignities of life under apartheid.
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Culture
After 70 years, Albert Maltz’s ‘The Morrison Case’ gets its U.S. premiere
November 3, 2023The final words of the drama prompt the audience to think about patriotism.
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Politics
A century ago, Zitkála-Šá exposed an orgy of atrocities against Native Americans
July 17, 2023In 1923, a Dakota-born writer-activist traveled through Oklahoma to investigate abuses against the Choctaw, Creek, and other tribes. What she found was appalling.
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Culture
‘The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist 75 Years Later’: A review
June 7, 2023Throughout this volume, there’s never a doubt that Ceplair writes with honesty, fairness, empathy, and deep knowledge.
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Culture
‘The Lonesome Vigilante’: John Steinbeck explains Tucker Carlson
May 10, 2023“It’s not how white men fight” is the opposite of truth and only confirms Carlson’s raging racism.
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Culture
Leftist ‘life hacks’ from Mike Gold’s farewell columns in ‘People’s Daily World’
February 1, 2023In the 1930s, he was a firebrand agitator writing in the pages of the Daily Worker. By the era of the ‘New Left,’ Mike Gold was at it again on the West Coast.
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Culture
‘Joe Hill, Alive as You and Me’ unites and inspires in Akron
November 16, 2022Now is a good time to talk and learn about Joe Hill, as we did on a November evening in Akron.
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