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Colorblind Casting

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On January 9, 2016
I really enjoyed this Angelica Jade Basti茅n essay on the problems with colorblind casting in Hollywood. Using Oscar Isaac as an example, she explores how he has been able to work without his ethnicity defining his roles, but also how he had to not use...
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Black Pain, Past and Present

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On January 8, 2016
I liked this Lisa Wade piece connecting the desperate attempts by ex-slaves to reconstruct their families through placing newspaper ads in the late 19th century to Black Lives Matter today in the terms of how white people consistently denigrate and ignore the emotional pain African-Americans...
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Sunken Cities

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On January 7, 2016
Rather than start off our day with the usual doom and gloom, how about something cool? Like the rediscovery of an Egyptian city that was known about but not thought to be important until more excavations were done. And now they find out it's a...
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Ten Great Labor History Books

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On January 6, 2016
Miners coming out of mine shaft, Virginia City, Nevada, 1867 Backlist asked me to submit a list of ten books on U.S. labor history I would recommend for a broader audience. It is here, with explanations. Without explanations, the ten books are: Melvyn Dubofsky, We...

Prop 13

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On January 6, 2016

Sasha Abramsky makes the argument that maybe California voters have finally had enough of the impact of Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot measures that decimated the state budget and set.

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