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Beautiful Acts of Resistance
Just moments after performing a dramatic final death scene, Palestinian playwright Abdelfattah Abusrour was back on stage delivering an afterword that was no less intense. Speaking softly, Abusrour told …
Archaeologist, Black Feminist Unearths Contributions of African Diaspora, Everyday People
Whitney Battle-Baptiste. (Photo: whitneybattlebaptiste.wordpress.com) Every February is Black History Month, which presents many opportunities to explore and contextualize the broader, nuanced and less familiar aspects of what …
Author Walter Mosley on Writing Mystery Novels, Political Revelation, Racism and Pushing Obama
Today in a Black History Month special, we spend the hour with the award-winning author Walter Mosley, who many people were introduced to when Bill Clinton praised his book …
How Financial Crisis, Economic Inequality, Social Media, and More Brought Revolutions in 2011 and Changed Us Forever (2)
We're at an inflection point in history, a shift not just in our politics but our consciousness, says Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight economics editor, author and journalist. …
What Are We Really Eating? Reporter Goes Undercover to Reveal the Real Story of Our Broken Food System
Tracie McMillan's The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table takes us on a vivid and poignant tour of a place we …
Capitalism Makes Us Crazy: Dr. Gabor Maté on Illness and Addiction
Humans have always used drugs, but current level of drug abuse could indicate a bigger problem that we’re driving people into addiction. What’s the connection between the increase in …
How Pop Culture Influences Political Expectations
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets the crowd at a campaign rally in Mesa, Arizona on February 13, 2012. Film historian and culture critic Neal Gabler joins …
Revealed: Corporation-Courting Imperialist Thomas Friedman
Verso Books recently inaugurated a series it calls “Counterblasts,” which “aims to revive the tradition of polemical writing inaugurated by Puritan and leveller pamphleteers in the seventeenth century.” Its …
Bill Moyers Interviews Rita Dove on the Power of Poetry (Video)
Rita Dove on the Power of Poetry from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo. TRANSCRIPT: BILL MOYERS: From the combative, ferocious and vituperative field of politics, we repair to a quieter …
Chicago Teachers Speak Out About “Reform” Effects
“We worry more about our students now more than we ever have in the past.” Since the latest Chicago Public Schools “reform” efforts began in 1996, Orr …