BONUS CONTENT THIS MONTH:
1. UP NOW: An extended interview with Stephen Pimpare on the way Hollywood portrays poverty.
2. UP NOW: Audio version of our interview with Thomas Frank.
3. COMING: A short documentary of Lenneal Henderson's time at the 1968 Poor People's Campaign demonstration.
A note from the editors,
A few months ago we uncovered a series of digitized and newly restored film from The Poor People’s Campaign in 1968. Seeing the revived material in motion and color remind us it wasn’t that long ago. Photographer Jill Freedman on Resurrection City:
Of course, it was old stuff from the start. Another nonviolent demonstration. Another march on Washington. Another army camping, calling on a government that acts like the telephone company.
Even poverty is ancient history. Always have been poor people, still are, always will be.
Because governments are run by ambitious men of no imagination. Whose priorities are so twisted that they burn food while people starve. And we let them.
And no news is new.
February looks at anti-poverty movements in the United States.
-frank
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An Editor's Letter from the Women of Watts & Beyond
by frank news editors & The Women of Watts & Beyond
June 4, 2018
June takes a closer look at incarceration and violence through the lens of those most greatly impacted — the community. Titled Collateral Damage, we’ll zoom in on Los Angeles & it’s neighborhoods, home to the United States’ largest prison system, as a microcosm of the national issues at play.
To begin, we asked The Women Of Watts, a Los Angeles based non-profit focused on the transformation and empowerment of women in their local Watts (and beyond), to write this months editors letter.
-Tatti and Clare