Vanessa Veselka’s “Zazen” is set in a city that resembles Portland Della’s mind is on fire. She’s just returned to a city that resembles Portland, putting her career as a paleontologist on hold to wait tables at a vegetarian restaurant called Rise Up Sing ...
20 Oct 2021 - Jay Boss Rubin
In 'Black Radical,' Kerri K. Greenidge pays tribute to the early-20th-century editor and advocate “Black Radical” author Kerri K. Greenidge recalls that she was 7 years old when she first heard about the black civil rights crusader and journalis ...
7 Feb 2020 - Joe Martin
Peter Duffy’s ‘The Agitator’ resurrects a captivating story with remarkable characters An ancient symbol. It can be found in many cultures, known variously as the Fylfot, the Gammadion and Hakenkreuz. In China it’s called the Wan, in Japan the Manji. We k ...
24 Jan 2020 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor In 1968, Congress passed the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Act. The act banned redlining, which had made it difficult o ...
13 Dec 2019 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | “Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream” by Aaron Glantz What’s your favorite token in Monopoly: the ...
8 Nov 2019 - Helen Hill
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Revolting Prostitutes’ by Juno Mac and Molly Smith Recently, an online site advertising escort services was shut down and its CEO found guilty of promoting prostitution. A major blow against exploitation and trafficking of women, right? Wro ...
25 Oct 2019 - Mike Wold
Book Review | “King and the Other America: The Poor People’s Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality” by Sylvie Laurent On April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City, Martin Luther King Jr. took a courageous risk when he proclaimed his oppos ...
30 Aug 2019 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World’ by Annie Lowrey When Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang introduced his “Freedom Dividend,” a plan to give every adult in ...
26 Jul 2019 - Ashley Archibald
BOOK REVIEW | “Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Interviews” by Stephen Smith and Catherine Ellis In 1964, Robert Penn Warren, the famed white writer, interviewed a number of black leaders – organizers and writers – and eventually published a lengthy ...
7 Jun 2019 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Winners Take All, the Elite Charade of Changing the World’ by Anand Giridharadas In 1889, opulent industrialist Andrew Carnegie penned the foundation statement of the modern philanthropic movement. In what was known as “The Gospel of Wealth ...
17 May 2019 - Joe Martin