In celebration of Black History Month, Music Editor Ella Cockerill shares the story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the black and queer icon to whom rock ‘n’ roll owes it all. In the spring of 1964, British students lined the platform of a disused train station outside of Manchester. The venue was busy due to the […]
Cowboys are nothing but useful fictions. They co-opted their image from the South American vaqueros and gauchos, the original horseback livestock herders, from the spurs on their boots to the brims of their hats. In terms of the lives they led, they were multi-racial itinerant workers, driven to the Frontier out of poverty but regardless, […]