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Activist Scholars Take on Big Developers
Hudson Yards, New York City’s newest neighborhood, costing the city 5.6 billion taxpayer dollars, opened March 15. Who asked…
Dana Frank Offers Lessons from Latin America in ‘Long Honduran Night’
Indypendent readers most likely know Honduras as the site of a right-wing coup in 2009 and as one of…
Labor Conflict: With ‘Birth Strike’ Jenny Brown Tackles the Population Decline
It took more than a decade of litigation by feminist plaintiffs for Plan B, known as the “morning-after pill,”…
When Women Take on Mass Incarceration
If you feel fed-up with criminal justice reform efforts touted by the Koch brothers that leave our prison industrial…
Another biography of Harvey Milk?’ I thought with a twinge of annoyance when I saw Lillian Faderman’s latest book,…
2 Centuries, 10 Strikes: Erik Loomis Offers an Insightful History of American Labor
With public support for unions surging, historian Erik Loomis has produced a timely book called A History of America…
Power Up: A History of Energy and the People Behind It
In the late 19th century, horses hauled wood culled from North America’s great forests in order to heat and…
Bill Fletcher Tackles Identity, Race and Small Town Murder With ‘The Man Who Fell From The Sky’
“Race” as a biological category differentiating humans has been a spurious and discredited marker for more than a century.…