poetry

Salaria Kea

Peter Neil Carroll Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
The only African American woman to serve in the Spanish Civil War, nurse Salaria Kea fought racism all of her life.

film

Leonard Bernstein’s Radicalism

Peter Dreier Dissent
Bernstein used his status as a public figure both to popularize classical music and to support civil rights, the antiwar movement, and other political causes.

food

The Global Love of Boiled Peanuts

Julia Skinner The Bitter Southerner
The story of boiled peanuts is as complex, fraught, and global as the South itself. To acknowledge the complexity, and challenges, of their history is to acknowledge the ingenuity of the people who worked to preserve their culinary heritage.

poetry

1619

Philip C. Kolin White Terror Black Trauma
Mississippi poet Philip Kolin traces the history of enslavement since 1619, this extract from his new book White Terror, Black Trauma (Third World Press).

books

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe

Peter Conrad The Guardian
Historian Noel Malcolm’s survey of gay life in the 15th to 18th centuries debunks many myths, but mostly catalogues the extreme violence perpetrated against those judged to have broken religious doctrine.

food

Food Was a Focus at COP28. Here’s What You Need To Know

Editors, Modern Farmer Modern Farmerhttps://modernfarmer.com/2023/12/food-was-a-focus-at-cop28-heres-what-you-need-to-know/?utm_source=modernfarmer.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=want-to-move-to-the-agrihood
At the world’s biggest conference on climate change, global leaders tried to make moves for a more sustainable food system.

poetry

Bob Moses: Gardener of Minds

C Liegh McInnis Valley Voices: A Literary Review
The poet C. Liegh McInnis pays homage to the great African American activist, Robert Moses who led the campaign for civil rights in 1960s Mississippi and later the Algebra Project committed to education equality.
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