December 19, 2024
Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
You can almost hear him now, lounging at Mar-a-Lago, doodling crude sketches of “Mount Trump” on a cocktail napkin between rounds of Diet Coke and grievance tweets.
Manifest Destiny: the original delusion of grandeur. A cocktail of American exceptionalism and Romantic White nationalism, it was based on the absurd belief that White men…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Oh, my children, they tried to bury you, but they didn’t know you were seeds. Remember that it’s all connected.
We are gathered here today in these last days of the American Empire, and the beginning of the end of late-stage capitalism, to declare that none…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Throughout history, the military has been used against its citizens who were fighting for change.
The older I get and the longer I’m in movement spaces, I am convinced that most people don’t understand systems of oppression. Governmental control and corporate…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
From time to time, when I need a Nikki Giovanni fix, I’ll read some of her poems or listen to one of my scratchy albums to hear the lyricism in her voice talk to me.
On the evening of December 9, I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for something on the Internet. What…
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