Dr. Michael Greger: An Easy way to Live Longer
Many studies have shown that calorie restriction, without malnutrition, can increase lifespan and lower the risk of age-related diseases, such as cancer. However, for many people, calorie restriction clearly has … Continue reading
The Radical Art and Life of Diego Rivera
El Vendedor De Alcatraces — Portrait of Angelina Beloff 1909 — Colonisation, The Great City of Tenochtitlan, detail from the mural, Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mexico, 1945-52 — Cultivation of Maize … Continue reading
Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize 1993 Acceptance Speech (Text and Video)
“Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise.” Or was it an old man? A guru, perhaps. Or a griot soothing restless children. I have heard … Continue reading
Video: White People (official full documentary — MTV)
What does it mean to be white? MTV’s ‘White People’ is a frank discussion about race that tries to answer the question from the viewpoint of young white people living … Continue reading
Video: Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People
Episode 1: Exploring Jennifer Loren’s Cherokee Heritage, the artwork of Roy Boney, Jr. and the story of legendary Cherokee Ned Christie. Hosted by Cherokee citizen and Emmy-winning journalist Jennifer Loren. … Continue reading
Video: Six Reasons Why Men Are Avoiding Marriage
The percentage of people getting married is falling in the United States, and many observers claim that this trend reflects a change in young men’s attitudes toward marriage. Rather than … Continue reading
T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo … Continue reading
Vanessa German: The Insurance Salesman Visits the Road of Corpses
These kids are killing me wit alla their talk of death. yesterday a cue line at the arthouse n a trio of dead uncles shot n kilt. cousins fake cousins … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Ordinary War
You ever wonder why, on the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in D. C., the names are not listed alphabetically? The tourist guide answer says something about listing them by date, thus … Continue reading
Paul Buchheit: How Big Corporations Cheat Public Education
Corporations have reaped trillion-dollar benefits from 60 years of public education in the U.S., but they’re skipping out on the taxes meant to sustain the educational system. Children suffer from … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Papal encyclical puts Pope on side of progressives, but ignores need for family planning
The Democratic Party would do well to strip the religious references and theological discussions from Pope Francis’s recent papal encyclical on the environment and place what’s left into its 2016 … Continue reading
Jimmy Carter: The US is an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery
Former President Jimmy Carter said July 28 on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” … Continue reading
Jose Padua: A Book of Lines and Years
I give to you a book of days, you give to me a line of minutes. I give to you a story of weeks, you give to me a poem … Continue reading
George Yancy and Joe Feagin: American Racism in the ‘White Frame’
George Yancy: To what extent does your work as a sociologist overlap or pertain to what we might concern ourselves with as philosophers? Joe Feagin: I have been deeply concerned … Continue reading
