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Tarik Dobbs
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assistant professor of English (creative writing-poetry) | running poetry.onl | poems: Nazar Boy (Haymarket Books, 2024); Dearbornistan (Haymarket Books, forthcoming) | 🏳️‍🌈🇱🇧🇸🇾 | 🇵🇸
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"If a journalist calmly and truthfully explaining the problems with an industry or the problems of a company, with no embellishment, just explaining what the problem is directly to camera, comes off as a threat or comes off as a motive, then perhaps that industry is the problem."
A reporter covered United Healthcare. TMZ thought he might be a killer.
TMZ contacted Sean Morrow, a reporter for the nonprofit newsroom More Perfect Union, saying it had multiple tips tying him to the killing of Brian Thompson.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Some news, with a heavy heart and gratitude for the people who fight to keep Palestinians alive, despite. My next poetry collection, WHEN THE ARAB APOCALYPSE COMES TO AMERICA will be published by @haymarketbooks.org in 2026.
December 4, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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An Israeli airstrike hit a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five people, including at least three employees with the food aid charity. World Central Kitchen said that it was "urgently seeking more details."
World Central Kitchen workers killed by Israeli airstrike, Gaza health ministry says
An Israeli airstrike hit a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five people, including at least three employees with the food aid charity. World Central Kitchen said that it was "urgently seeking more details."
www.npr.org
November 30, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 3rd!
November 22, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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BREAKING: The UK parliament had passed the Rail Public Ownership Bill.

This marks a significant step toward bringing UK railroads under public ownership.
November 20, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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www.gameoverbooks.com
July 5, 2023 at 8:47 PM
A great time to revisit George Abraham’s “ars poetica in which every pronoun is a Free Palestine” via Mizna by way of AAWW The Margins — https://aaww.org/broken-ghazal-before-balfour-two-poems-by-george-abraham/
July 4, 2023 at 6:43 PM
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Free Palestine 🇵🇸
July 4, 2023 at 4:58 PM
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Using a mutual’s following list to find my other friends
July 4, 2023 at 2:28 PM
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“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic ...
We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester...
www.democracynow.org
July 4, 2023 at 2:35 PM