A gloriously textured portrait of the West African kingdom of Dahomey in the early 1820s, scandalously shut out by the Academy.
culture & reviews
Chelsea Manning’s memoir: README.txt
Chelsea Manning, a high-profile transgender activist and whistleblower, finally gets the chance to tell her story in her own words.
His Name Is George Floyd
Black journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa describe with warmth and respect Floyd’s personal history and the movement his death reenergized.
Letters to the editor, December 2022
Feedback from readers on recent articles in the Freedom Socialist.
Patrick Haggerty: Musician, radical activist, and queer trailblazer
A salute to pioneering radical queer activist Patrick Haggerty, member of the first out gay country band, Lavender Country.
Aftershock: the repercussions of Black maternal mortality
A film following two mourning fathers on their journey to raise their children as single parents while working to build a movement.
Letters to the editor, October 2022
Feedback from our readers on the energy crisis, poetry, and LGBTQ+ rights in Africa.
How US genocide and bigotry shaped Nazi race law
Review of the bombshell book Hitler’s American Model.
Interiority, hey?
A lyrical look by poet-revolutionary Nellie Wong on sense of self as an Asian American woman versus the racist perceptions of others.
Rare footage spotlights 1969 Harlem music festival
“Summer of Soul” captures the Black music and political spirit of concert-goers in an era of protest against racism and the Vietnam war.