On August 16 of last year, South African police shot dead thirty-four mineworkers at the Lonmin Platinum mine in Marikana. People in South Africa are referring to this as the “Marikana moment,” a turning point where the realities of South …
Heist: Who Stole the America Dream? a documentary by Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher, 2012 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, 2010 By now, most leftists and much of mainstream America are …
Ankle bracelets are almost fashionable these days. Martha Stewart wore one on her television show. Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton may have converted them into a rite of passage for inebriated starlets. In fact, Chanel’s 2008 spring show featured ankle …
