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 | ‘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 | “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 | “The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists” by Naomi Klein Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last September, knocking out the electric grid, leaving thousands without shelter and, directly or indirectly, causing th ...
28 Sep 2018 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | Although the author has left us, her essays validate that her acuity, wit and perception are eternal In your spare time, what do you do?” That question on a survey elicited this response from writer Ursula K. Le Guin at age 81: “I... don’t k ...
27 Jul 2018 - Mike Wold
Zack McDermott’s memoir, ‘Gorilla and the Bird,’ describes his experience with bipolar disorder, the failure of the criminal justice system when it comes to mental health, and the unconditional support from his mother, ‘Bird.’ When public defender Zack Mc ...
4 May 2018 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | 'A Time to Rise' is a collection of personal reminiscences of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP) Many histories of the New Left end with the 1960s or early 1970s, often focusing on the White student opposition to the Vietnam W ...
19 Jan 2018 - Mike Wold
The author of ‘You’re More Powerful Than You Think’ explains how “You’re More Powerful Than You Think” isn’t about personal empowerment. “There is no chicken soup for anyone’s soul here,” author Eric Liu writes in the book. Instead, it’s a self-help book ...
13 Oct 2017 - Mike Wold
Local and state officials 'built mass incarceration, and that’s who’s going to unbuild it,' says James Forman Jr., author of 'Locking Up Our Own' It is well documented how mass incarceration reinforces a racial caste system in Americ ...
7 Jul 2017 - Mike Wold
‘Aurora’ by Kim Stanley Robinson Space — the final frontier? The last walk on the moon was almost 50 years ago, but there’s been little doubt in science fiction movies and novels that someday humankind will break away from our little planet and colonize o ...
4 Oct 2016 - Mike Wold