Are you familiar with the Reconstruction & Post-Reconstruction periods? It feels like Post-Reconstruction now, around 1911. Reconstruction was between 1865 and 1877. It was a
Category: Politics and Elections
The lie of help, the story how the government helped kill people by saving them from alcohol
From 1893 to 1933, the Anti-Saloon League was a major force in U.S. politics. Influencing the country through lobbying, newspapers, and pamphlets, it turned a
Individualism won’t stop COVID-19, we need better policy than “wear your mask.”
If we keep painting the COVID-19 pandemic as an individual issue, we are allowing the government to abdicate its social contract. The government exists for
The scam of sexism & racism explains the low payoff for Master’s degrees
There has been talk lately regarding the utility of the Master’s degree, some say it is an outright scam. Has there been a feminist or
A conversation with Dr. Hart
Public Intellectuals Teka Lo speaks with Dr. Carl L. Hart. He is psychologist and neuroscientist. He is a professor of psychology at Columbia University. Hart
Class and race are intertwined, race is a class conversation, but we all know that
I just cannot agree with this line of thinking. In readings about the splits in the Communist Party in the 20th century, the big split
Abolition is not about Bill Cosby or Derek Chauvin
Abolition is to decriminalize Blackness and free Black people from situational oppression. The U.S. allowed white people to enslave Black people in their homes, plantations,
The trades won’t cure the systematic racism Black people face in labor
The trades will not be the kind of magic bullet the right and the uninformed are touting. Plumbers can make up to 90K a year which sounds
Dear white left…
If I have a choice, I try to pick the option that doesn’t lead to vicious authoritarian fascism. I would be left, but I will
An interview with Monique Rodwell mother of the Rodwell brothers and attorney Cynthia Hardaway
Public Intellectuals Teka Lo speaks with Monique Rodwell and attorney Cynthia Hardaway. Ms. Rodwell is the mother of Branden K. Rodwell, Justin Rodwell, Jaykil A.
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