BOOK REVIEW | “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor In 1968, Congress passed the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Act. The act banned redlining, which had made it difficult o ...
13 Dec 2019 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Revolting Prostitutes’ by Juno Mac and Molly Smith Recently, an online site advertising escort services was shut down and its CEO found guilty of promoting prostitution. A major blow against exploitation and trafficking of women, right? Wro ...
25 Oct 2019 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | “Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Interviews” by Stephen Smith and Catherine Ellis In 1964, Robert Penn Warren, the famed white writer, interviewed a number of black leaders – organizers and writers – and eventually published a lengthy ...
7 Jun 2019 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | “No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs” by Lezlie Lowe What makes a city livable? Urban planners talk about public spaces, pedestrian access, good transit, parks and more. But they almost never talk about public toilets. ...
12 Apr 2019 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Beyond the Rebel Girl’ by Heather Mayer chronicles the contributions of women in organized labor in the Pacific Northwest A hundred years ago, Washington and Oregon were hotbeds of labor radicalism. The most radical union of the time, the I ...
29 Mar 2019 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | “The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists” by Naomi Klein Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last September, knocking out the electric grid, leaving thousands without shelter and, directly or indirectly, causing th ...
28 Sep 2018 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Automating Inequality’ by Virginia Eubanks shows how technology is stacked against the marginalized When politicians and business leaders talk about using technology to streamline service provision to the poor, they conjure up an efficient, ...
3 Aug 2018 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | Although the author has left us, her essays validate that her acuity, wit and perception are eternal In your spare time, what do you do?” That question on a survey elicited this response from writer Ursula K. Le Guin at age 81: “I... don’t k ...
27 Jul 2018 - Mike Wold
Zack McDermott’s memoir, ‘Gorilla and the Bird,’ describes his experience with bipolar disorder, the failure of the criminal justice system when it comes to mental health, and the unconditional support from his mother, ‘Bird.’ When public defender Zack Mc ...
4 May 2018 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | 'A Time to Rise' is a collection of personal reminiscences of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP) Many histories of the New Left end with the 1960s or early 1970s, often focusing on the White student opposition to the Vietnam W ...
19 Jan 2018 - Mike Wold