Shirley Chisholm’s Legacy
by Aimee MolloyExpress
Writing in the January 1973 issue of Ms. Magazine, Gloria Steinem reflected on Shirley Chisholm’s recent run for the White House.
Chisholm’s Legacy: Shola Lynch with Theodore Hamm
by Theodore HammExpress
A regular on Sesame Street in the 1970s, Shola Lynch is now an acclaimed documentary filmmaker.
Rewriting the American Revolution
Express
Cosmology is the study of origins, a science of beginnings. And although it is a branch of physics, it is also true that nations, peoples, and states all possess cosmologies as well.
Fur Coats, Cowboy Hats, and Pepper Spray: An account of the second inauguration of George W. Bush
by Christian RoselandExpress
Hannah Arendt, the German-Jewish writer who identified the “banality of evil” in the Nuremberg trials, would have understood the second inauguration of George Bush on January 20th.
A Call to Secession
by Jason Flores-WilliamsExpress
When I was 13, my life was ripped apart by the United States government’s war on drugs. From the back of a courtroom I watched them sentence my father to 35 years in prison.
Letter from Pakistan
by Mridu ChandraExpress
A few months before Bush’s re-election, I took a job at a university in Lahore, the first “liberal arts” university in Pakistan, to teach a one-year course in film and video production.
An Extremely Political Life: Thai Jones with Shaina Fineberg
by Shaina FinebergExpress
Thai Jones was four years old when the FBI raided his family’s Bronx apartment to arrest his parents, Jeff Jones and Eleanor Stein. Jones and Stein were members of the radical group Weather Underground and had spent the 1970s in hiding.
