Arts and Entertainment

How to Send a Message of Solidarity to People in Migrant Detention

How to Send a Message of Solidarity to People in Migrant Detention How to Send a Message of Solidarity to People in Migrant Detention

A new project called Flowers on the Inside allows people to send postcards featuring art from undocumented immigrants to detained migrants.

Sep 17, 2019 / Tina Vasquez

The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Starts Its Third Annual Petition Drive for the Abolition of the Interstate Slave Trade and Slavery in Washington, DC, and the Territories (1836)

The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Starts Its Third Annual Petition Drive for the Abolition of the Interstate Slave Trade and Slavery in Washington, DC, and the Territories (1836) The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Starts Its Third Annual Petition Drive for the Abolition of the Interstate Slave Trade and Slavery in Washington, DC, and the Territories (1836)

Letters and pamphlets are good. Petitions, better: Ye who have pens, prepare to use them now. We’re going to need all of you to go house to house to collect signatures. We’ve been…

Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Range

The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838)

The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838) The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838)

Somebody had to be the first to amass the proof from slaveholders’ mouths: twenty thousand newspapers from the South, the unthinking testimony parsed, scissored carefully into stri…

Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Range

The Making of Moroccan Funk

The Making of Moroccan Funk The Making of Moroccan Funk

Led by the Casablanca polymath Abdelakabir Faradjallah, the band Attarazat Addahabia defined the sound of the city.

Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Marcus J. Moore

Puzzle No. 3509

Puzzle No. 3509 Puzzle No. 3509

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Parts of article used and reused in parallel (6,6)  9 Senior Department of Justice figure in the Obama administrati…

Sep 12, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Bless This Mess

Bless This Mess Bless This Mess

Domestic disruptions in Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go Bernadette and other recent films.

Sep 11, 2019 / Stuart Klawans

Everyone Is Acting as if We’re Not Temporary, and I Am Falling Apart in the Privacy of My Own Home

Everyone Is Acting as if We’re Not Temporary, and I Am Falling Apart in the Privacy of My Own Home Everyone Is Acting as if We’re Not Temporary, and I Am Falling Apart in the Privacy of My Own Home

When he said, Sometimes we learn the most from losing, I think how often I’ve been bamboozled by life, how I’ve dropped a quarter in a slot machine and instead of cherries got coff…

Sep 10, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Kelli Russell Agodon

Ileana Cabra’s Music for a Revolution

Ileana Cabra’s Music for a Revolution Ileana Cabra’s Music for a Revolution

Her new album channels the spirit of Puerto Rico’s activists.

Sep 10, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez

We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong

We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong

The Arnautoff murals in San Francisco have been denounced as demeaning and triggering, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.

Sep 10, 2019 / Feature / Robin D.G. Kelley

Puzzle No. 3508

Puzzle No. 3508 Puzzle No. 3508

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Republican put off? That’s too bad (11)  7 and 28 Toy weapon suitable for older kids: uranium engulfed in fire (3,3…

Sep 5, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

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