on the money
In her foreword to Clarence Lusane’s “Twenty Dollars and Change,” Kali Holloway explores how symbols like statues and money can both harm and help.
Kali Holloway is a columnist at The Daily Beast. She also contributes to The Nation. Her writings have appeared in The Guardian, Salon, TIME and numerous other outlets. She co-curated the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2017 summer performance and film series “Theater of the Resist.” In her spare time she produces documentary films, plays in bands, writes music reviews, and collects useless pop culture trivia. She was the director of the now defunct Make it Right Project, an initiative dedicated to taking down Confederate monuments and telling the truth about history.
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SO EMBARRASSING
It’s a national disgrace that this many people voted for a clueless, unqualified fraud like Herschel Walker.
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GAFFE, APOLOGY, REPEAT
The star just wrote a tweet so tone-deaf that the word “cringe” doesn’t do it justice. Why can’t she ever stop making it all about her?
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YOU MAD, DON?
New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit is bringing the ex-president’s racism and sexism back into the spotlight.
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SEEN THIS BEFORE
GOP governors sending immigrants to Democrat-led cities are following in the footsteps of the Southern white supremacists who bussed poor Black people to “liberal” areas.
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THE GOOD ONES
Racially aggrieved white conservatives actually love to vote for “the Black guy,” as long as they’re attacking blackness.
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‘ASTERISK ATTACHED’
They’re attacking as somehow “lesser” the Black woman Biden has promised to nominate—even before he’s actually nominated one.
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MLK DAY SURRENDER
There are so many people contributing, actively or passively, to the end of America’s brief experiment with real democracy that it’s hard to know where to focus your anger.
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COMMON SENSE
Alvin Bragg won office on a promise to make the city safer by only locking up people who do significant harm. But the moral panic began after he put out his plan for doing that.
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‘THE OPINIONS OF SHEEP’
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