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Just when we think the price of rentals could not get any worse, this week’s Rental Affordability Snapshot by Anglicare has revealed low-income Australians are facing a housing crisis like never before. In fact, if you rely on the Youth Allowance, there is not a single rental property across Australia you can afford this week
In an interview with Daniel Denvir… Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of History at the University of California Los Angeles, spoke about this vital history, documented in his 1990 book, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. The Alabama Communists and their allied organizations won major victories, but they also lost many fights and lost many lives to police and vigilantes. Hammer and Hoe reminds us that, then and today, the class struggle and fight for black freedom has never been easy. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Above: Evicted Arkansas sharecropper who was active in the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, now building his new home in Hill House, Mississippi.
The University Junior High, which became the first fully integrated public middle school in Austin in 1957, has housed the Steve Hicks School of Social Work since 1994. The building also houses Raul Valdez’s “Heart and Soul” mural, which was painted in the mid-1990s.
