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Alice Walker: Writing What’s Right

By Megan Labrise — 2012

The author of The Color Purple (and one of America’s most censured writers) tells Megan Labrise about finding wisdom in the songs of ancestors, why her acclaimed novel won’t be translated into Hebrew, and approaching writing in a priestly state of mind.

Read on www.guernicamag.com

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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It’s an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways.

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Naomi Klein
2025
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Why Billionaires Won’t Save Us - Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj - Netflix

The wealthiest Americans are often celebrated for their prolific giving, but is it altruism or is it all just hype? Hasan dissects how the ultra-rich use philanthropy to get richer, distract from the injustices on which they built their fortunes, and dictate politics and policy.

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2019
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Anand Giridharadas: “Winners Take All” and the Paradox of Elite Philanthropy - The Daily Show

Anand Giridharadas discusses his book “Winners Take All,” which explains how the super wealthy take advantage of U.S. financial policies while also looking philanthropic.

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2019
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Anand Giridharadas on ‘Winners Take All’ and the Charade of Elite Philanthropy - VPRO Documentary

Writer Anand Giridharadas describes in his book “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World” why the rich do not pay taxes, but with their philanthropy determine the course of the world (and thereby undermine our democracy).

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2020
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can—except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it.

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Anand Giridharadas
2019
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Trust: America’s Best Chance

Trust is essential to the foundation of America’s democracy, asserts Pete Buttigieg, the former presidential candidate and South Bend mayor.

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Pete Buttigieg
2020
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Full Opening Statement on Reparations at House Hearing

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates told lawmakers at a House committee hearing that the debate over reparations is “a dilemma of inheritance.”

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2019
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Ta-Nehisi Coates | Charlie Rose

Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the presidency of Barack Obama, the role of race in American politics, and his new book, “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy.”

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2017
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Coleman Hughes vs Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2019
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Riane Eisler
2009
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