For the last decade or so, I have only occasionally read  Village Voice , mostly online, but once upon a time, when I was in my 20s and ...

Happy Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day ! Instead of posting a long write-up, I came across a Salon  article by Kali Holloway , origina...

Who really cares about the Oscars? Clearly some of us care about the Oscars. Should we care about the Oscars? Should we care about the fa...

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr & Eslanda Goode Robeson, Schomburg Center digital collection “And one day we must ask the question...

Here we go again. In this April 4, 2015, frame from video provided by Attorney L. Chris Stewart representing the family of Walter Lame...

(Copyright © Flickr / WorCehT) In a recent issue of Jacobin   magazine, scholar, theorist, critic and activist Noam Chomsky , whose wor...

David Joselit (Yale University) "In museums then, art links vast amounts of capital to individual creativity and cultural identity. Thi...

James Baldwin As I was trying to winnow down the many things I wanted to write about for today, Labor Day , I realized that I could ret...

On Saturday, C and I went to see Michael Moore 's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), just as we'd caught his last two major...