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The Movin' On music festival, Walker Hayes at the Bryce Jordan Center, and Noche Latina are among the cultural highlights across Penn State through the end of the semester.

What's announced and what's in previews in the West End.

The relentless radicalism of Benjamin Lay.

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University of Pittsburgh History professor Marcus Rediker collaborated on a new graphic novel exploring how pirates created “real democracy from below.”

In September 1738, Quaker Benjamin Lay, a dwarf barely 4 feet tall, filled an animal bladder with bright red pokeberry juice, then tucked it into the secret compartment of a book. He donned a military uniform and a sword, covered himself in an overcoat that hid the book, and set off from his home in Pennsylvania for New Jersey, where he attended the Yearly Meeting of the most powerful Quakers. Many of these leading Quakers were slave owners.

The mass hysteria of the New York Panic of 1741 is evidence that slave-keepers knew and understood the evil of slavery.

Longtermists focus on ensuring humanity’s existence into the far future. But not without sacrifices in the present.

Kim Kelly’s survey of labor organizing in America—telling the stories of workers on the margins, from miners to sex workers—offers hope and inspiration for working-class victories to come.

City Paper reviews The Fearless Benjamin Lay and Prophet Against Slavery as well as announcing our CP Book Club October selection: Reluctant Immortals