Month: August 2024

Women preparing a kolam in Thulasendrapuram, Tamil Nadu (the home village of Kamala Harris' maternal grandfather) in 2020. Aijaz Raha via the AP Featured

South Asian America: An Election Year Microsyllabus

August 19, 2024 0

By Jessica Namakkal It has been a big year for South Asian Americans in politics. Before the summer of 2024, there were two conservatives, Nikki…

Rep. Marcantonio at his office, a trailer, with neighborhood children, ranging in age, from very young to teenagers. They are standing, some posing, some talking, with Marcantonio. The door to the trailer is open with some children standing inside the door frame, laughing. Marcantonio looks down at the child to his right, smiling warmly, with their arms around each other. The trailer reads "Congressional Office of your...Congressman," "Vito Ma....nio, "Meet him here," "PEACE," "Serves you..." Ellipsis in text signals what is blocked by the open door. Buildings line the top frame of the photo, behind Marcantonio's office.

Rep. Marcantonio, in front of his office at 1484 First Ave. NY" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1948. Featured

Congressman Vito Marcantonio: A Utopian Vision for His Time and Ours

August 9, 2024 0

By Sandhya Shukla Seventy years ago today, Vito Marcantonio, the most left-wing congressman in US history, suffered a fatal heart attack. He had by then…