Week of November 25

• Reading with gratitude
  Dear Kobe Bryant: a Threnody

  Anna Reagan

  MFA candidate in Creative Writing at UC Riverside’s Palm Desert MFA program
  The Confederate Flag as a Symbol of White Supremacy – and How Black Americans Have Defied It

  Matthew Pratt Guterl

  Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University
  Deb Haaland Brings Experience and History to Biden’s Cabinet

  Michael Leroy Oberg and Joel Helfrich
  The World the Suez Canal Made

  Aaron Jakes
  The True Story of Two Guatemalan Asylum Seekers at Our Border

  Mónica Salmón Gómez

  Sociology PhD Candidate at the New School for Social Research
  The Decline of Colombia’s Centaur State

  Julián Gómez Delgado

  Sociology and Historical Studies PhD student at The New School for Social Research
  Remembering Michael E. Gellert

  Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

  Founding Editor of Public Seminar, Senior Fellow at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, and chair of the Democracy Seminar
  Remembering—and Forgetting—the Cuban Revolution

  Michael J. Bustamante

  Associate Professor of History and Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies University of Miami.
  Two Sisters on Slavery’s Hallowed Ground

  Mark Allan Williams

  Essayist and Editor