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“Be the Change.” On the Misattributed Origins of a Popular Slogan

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Erin Osmon Explores the Antiracist and Social Justice Ethos Underpinning the Midwestern Rocker’s Career

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What Erdoğan’s Rule Reveals About the Current State of Western Democracies

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On the Urgent Need to Dismantle Food Apartheid in the United States

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Ashanté M. Reese Digs Into the Racialized Inequity in Food Access

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This Week in Literary History: Mae West is Sentenced to Ten Days in Jail for Obscenity

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