Columnist Tarik Günersel discusses Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to the White House, the blocking of Wikipedia in Turkey, and the resulting protests to fight for freedom of speech and information.
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Over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners continue their hunger strike into a fourth week.
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Mexican-American poet Ekiwah Adler-Belendez reads two of his poems as part of City of Asylum’s annual Jazz Poetry Month.
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Throughout his decades-long musical career, Mikhail Borzykin has spoken out against oppressive forces in Russia and used his rock music as resistance.
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Yona Harvey discusses her revision process, the way her writing moves between genres, and the shifts in campus climate she has observed working in the creative writing classroom.
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“Under closer scrutiny it becomes obvious that this issue is more political than religious.”
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We call on public and private institutions that sponsor the Havana Film Festival of New York to withdraw financial support to projects that go against the free and inclusive spirit of the city of New York and the Constitution of the United States.
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