1. “Alanis Morissette On Why America Must Embrace the Feminine.” 

Morissette, Alanis. The Daily Beast. July 14, 2017. https://www.thedailybeast.com/alanis-morissette-on-why-america-must-embrace-the-feminine?ref=scroll

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2. “Amateur: How Do I Reconcile My Masculinity With the Toxicity of Men?”

McBee, Thomas Page. Them. October 5, 2018. (PDF)

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3. “Artists Helped Lift America Out of the Depression. Could that happen again?”

Wilkinson, Alissa. Vox Magazine. June 22, 2020. (PDF)

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4. “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity.” 

Baldwin, James. New York, 1963. (Audio)

 

5. “A Biden Win Won’t Cure My Trump-Era Depression.” 

Smith, Mychal Denzel. The New York Times. September 11, 2020. (PDF)

 

6. “The Bittersweet Victory at Saint Domingue.” 

Baptist, Edward E. Slate. August 6, 2015. (PDF)

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7. “Black Trans Women and Black Trans Femmes: Leading & Living Fiercely.” 

Pillar 1 of the Trans Agenda for Liberation. Contributors: Nyla Foster, Ebony Harper, BT -- Director and Founder of Trans(forming), Tre’Andre Valentine, Marisa Richmond, Raquel Willis, Kylar Broadus, Chase Strangio, and Taffy Johnson. Transgender Law Center. (PDF)

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8. “Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial.” 

Branch, John and Plumer, Brad. The New York Times. September 22, 2020. (PDF)

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9. “Community Is An Intentional Act.”

Featuring Hanif Abdurraqib. Episode from Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. July 27, 2020.

(Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts).

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10. “Cornel West on hope and resistance in the age of Trump: We must ‘find joy in the struggle.’”

Devega, Chauncey. Salon. November 3, 2019. (PDF)

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11. “The Creative Process.”

Baldwin, James. Creative America. 1962. (PDF)

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12. “As Da 5 Bloods Hits Netflix, Black Vietnam Veterans Recall the Real Injustices They Faced During and After the War.” 

Chow, Andrew R., Bates, Josiah. Time. June 12, 2020. (PDF)

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13. “The Drug War, Mass Incarceration and Race.”

Drug Policy Alliance. January 25, 2018. (PDF)

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14. “Freedom Struggle: Angela Davis on Calls to Defund Police, Racism & Capitalism, and the 2020 Election.” 

Democracy Now. September 7, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt_NzttRP9U (Video)

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15. “The Glorification of the Working Class.”

Lam, Sophia. The Gate; University of Chicago. March 24, 2020. http://uchicagogate.com/articles/2020/3/24/glorification-working-class/

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16. “Harriet Tubman Was My Wonder Woman.”

Mock, Brentin. The Atlantic. May 12, 2016. (PDF)

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17. “The Human Journey: Bill T. Jones.” 

The Kennedy Center. March, 2019 (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyTDgqOM1m8

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18. “The impossible burden of being Black in America.” 

McCray, Netia A. The Boston Globe. June 22, 2020. (PDF)

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19. “Period Poverty Affects Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People, Too.”

Roark, Courtney. TeenVogue Magazine. October 18, 2019. (PDF)

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20. The Inquiry: “How do you Launch a Nuclear Missile?” 

BBC. January 24, 2017. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p04pr36d (Podcast)

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21. “Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism?” 

Kendi, Ibram X. The Atlantic. September, 2020. (PDF)

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22. “Masculinity Is Considered ‘More American’ Than Femininity, Study Suggests.” 

Kershner, Kate. How Stuff Works. September 7, 2017. (PDF)

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23. “Postal Service cuts imperil ladder to middle class for many Black Americans.” 

Mueller, Eleanor and Mejdrich, Kellie. POLITICO. August 18, 2020. (PDF)

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24. “Protecting the Earth, Protecting Ourselves: Stories from Native America.” 

Foxworth, Raymond. Nonprofit Quarterly. March 9, 2020. (PDF)

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25. “The Road from Serfdom.” 

Allen, Danielle. The Atlantic. December 2019 (PDF)

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26. “The Shocking Photo of ‘Whipped Peter’ That Made Slavery’s Brutality Impossible to Deny.”

Blakemore, Erin. History.com. February 7, 2019. (PDF)

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27. “Top Adviser to Richard Nixon Admitted that ‘War on Drugs’ was Policy Tool to Go After Anti-War Protesters and ‘Black People.’”

Drug Policy Alliance. March 22, 2016. (PDF)

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28. “The Unequal Price of Periods: Menstrual Equity in the United States.”

Period Equity, ACLU. (PDF)

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29. “The urgency of intersectionality.”

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. TEDWomen 2016. October 2016. (Video)

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30. “What to an American Is the Fourth of July?”

Kendi, Ibram X. The Atlantic. July 4, 2019. (PDF)

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31. “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Douglass, Frederick. 1852. (PDF)

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32. “Who Can We Trust With the Nuclear Button? No One.”

Perry, William J. and Collina, Tom Z. The New York Times. June 22, 2020. (PDF)

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33. “Why are millennials burned out? Capitalism.”

Illing, Sean. Vox Magazine. March 16, 2019. (PDF)

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34. “Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers.” 

Greenhouse, Steven. The New York Times. August 3, 2019. (PDF)