Annelise Orleck Journalist Profile

Articles

Hunger in the United States

Oct 27, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Annelise Orleck |Janet Poppendieck |Andrew Fisher |Viola Davis

Your book is called The Painful Truth about Hunger in America. What is the painful truth that people might not know? My book is grounded in the wisdom and expertise of people who know hunger firsthand, and I’m very committed to being in solidarity with them. The book is about the last 25 years of my work, where I was interviewing and working alongside primarily Black and brown women who were trying to break out of poverty in the city of Philadelphia and beyond.
Orleck: From Buddhist Monks to Riot Police: A Reflection on the Last Week at Dartmouth

May 10, 2024 | thedartmouth.com | Annelise Orleck

Many of us were traumatized by the College’s decision to bring in police, including New Hampshire riot police and SWAT teams, to our quiet, rural campus on May 1. Dozens of faculty, including myself, concerned about our students’ safety, came to the Green.
The Welfare Rights Movement Wanted Society to Value the Work of Child-Rearing

Aug 17, 2023 | jacobin.com | Annelise Orleck

Interview by Sasha Lilley In 1971, thousands of poor black women shut down the Las Vegas Strip and occupied Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino in protest of welfare cuts in Nevada. They were joined by left celebrities like Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, partly to ensure that the mobsters who owned the casinos would not shoot into the crowds of protesters. These women subsequently founded Operation Life, considered one of the most successful programs of the War on Poverty era.
On 50 Years of Progress Won By Black Mothers

May 1, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Annelise Orleck

It's been 18 years since Storming Caesars Palace was first published, and the national mood on matters of race, gender, and economic justice has shifted dramatically....
The Storming of Caesars Palace: On 50 Years of Progress Won By Black Mothers

May 1, 2023 | lithub.com | Annelise Orleck

Annaliese Gerlick Revisits Storming Caesars Palace, 18 Years Later It’s been 18 years since Storming Caesars Palace was first published, and the national mood on matters of race, gender, and economic justice has shifted dramatically.
The Roundup Top Ten for April 28, 2023

Apr 27, 2023 | historynewsnetwork.org | Dan Royles |Silke-Maria Weineck |Aaron Lecklider |Annelise Orleck

; 4/28/2023 Roundup DeSantis's Real Campus Attack is on Labor by Dan Royles "I’m exhausted because I teach U.S. history, including African American and LGBTQ+ history, at a public university in Florida." This places the author at the intersection of DeSantis's public attacks on verboten ideas and his quieter steps to gut tenure protections for the state's faculty and union representation for all educators in Florida. Will the Battle of the Suburbs Play Out Differently This Time? by Lily...
These Black mothers bet on themselves and transformed Las Vegas

Apr 21, 2023 | motherjones.com | Annelise Orleck

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On March 20, 2023, Storming Caesars Palace, a documentary directed by Hazel Gurland-Pooler, premiered on PBS. It was based on the 2005 book Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, by Dartmouth history professor Annelise Orleck, which was rereleased in an expanded edition this month.
Storming Caesars Palace

Mar 20, 2023 | beacon.org | Annelise Orleck

“Beautifully written . . . Annelise Orleck reminds us that those at the grassroots ‘can do it and do it better.’”—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor“What a lovely book of hope! With grace and with rigor, Orleck presents the War on Poverty from the field and the vantage point of poor mothers.”—Nell Irvin Painter, author of Sojourner Truth“A poignant counterpoint to the current culture of cynicism and despair.