In an excerpt from his upcoming book on the Obama administration, Coates constructs an incisive look at Donald Trump’s political ascent.
History
Posted inCurrent Events, History
Tennessee, Goddamn: Memphis Fights To Remove Its Confederate Monuments
The legacy of General Nathan Bedford Forrest has the city going up against the state of Tennessee.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Nonfiction, Quotes
Like Sheep to the Sanitized Slaughter Zone
“Turkey, in all of its modernist efforts, is just covering up the smell of its own shit.”
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Unapologetic Women
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List
The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.
Posted inBlog Post, History, Nonfiction, Standout
A Look Back at the 1939 Pro-Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden and the Protesters Who Organized Against It
Seventy-something years ago, another massive rally took place in the United States that featured a clash between protesters and white supremacists.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
The Brief Career and Self-Imposed Exile of Jutta Hipp, Jazz Pianist
Europe’s “First Lady of Jazz” moved to New York in 1955, played for five more years, then disappeared — while royalty checks piled up with her record label.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, History
Billy Bragg: Skiffle Songs Are Railroad Songs
“The British kids were trying to escape the past as quickly as they could and the guitar offered them the best means to do that.”
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Story
Percy Ross Wants to Give You Money!
He was was a self-made, blue-collar millionaire in Reagan’s America. But when Percy Ross decided to give away his fortune, he made things simple: all you had to do was ask for it.
Posted inArts & Culture, History
Percy Ross Wants to Give You Money!
He was was a self-made, blue-collar millionaire in Reagan’s America. But when Percy Ross decided to give away his fortune, he made things simple: all you had to do was ask for it.
Posted inHistory, Quotes
The Re-Kazakhification of Kazakhstan, On Horseback
After years of Soviet control, the country looks to the cultural foundations of its nomadic past.