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This story originally appeared in Jacobin on Dec. 0, 2023. It is shared here with permission. It’s 1935 and class war is brewing in Arkansas. Standing before 1,500 black and white sharecroppers, the radical Methodist minister Ward Rodgers thunders, “I can lead a mob to lynch any planter in Poinsett County.” The crowd erupts with applause. These white and black sharecroppers who worked, lived, and died amid the vestiges of the Southern plantation system were no strangers to terror. The night ....
At Express Healthcare in College Park, Maryland, cars stretched all the way down the street, police helped direct traffic and some people attempting to get a. ....