“I Love My Culture”: Leonard Peltier on His Life and Art
Indigenous activist and former political prisoner Leonard Peltier talks about his art his release from prison with The Indy.
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Judith Malina, In Her Own Words
The co-founder of the The Living Theatre, Karen Malpede writes, was a “a brilliant visionary, a fearless artist and a dazzling conversationalist.”
A Moment in the Sun: How Black New Yorkers Sought to Redefine Freedom in Pre-Civil War NYC
In his new book, Historian Shane White tells the story of a vibrant community of Black Americans and of integration in the years before the Civil War.
“Capitalism: A Global History” by Harvard professor Sven Beckert lays out his argument on the origins of capitalism in his drawn out but ultimately compelling book.
In “Barbara Forever,” A Pioneer of Lesbian Experimental Film is Lovingly Remembered
Brydie O’Connor uses archival material and masterful editing to produce a deeply moving portrait of an artist on her own terms.
For the Culture: “One Ummah, One Barrio” Explores the Radical History of New York’s Latine Muslims
The exhibit at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 tells the story of Alianza Islámica and its revolutionary contributions to Latine Muslim culture and community development.
Longtime attorney Flint Taylor’s new book tells the story of the People’s Law Collective which grew out of the radical movements of the late 1960s.
How to Normalize a Genocide: Off-Broadway “Birthright” Play Sparks Boycott Campaign
Organizers with TW4C (a coalition of theater workers in solidarity with Palestine) and the BDS campaign determined that the play violated BDS’ anti-normalization guidelines.
Far from being an indictment of American violence, the film is American violence. It is American excess, too.
Two new books shed light on 30 years of struggle to end immigrant detention in New Jersey and beyond.