Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre By Carina del Valle Schorske Feature Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.
Busting Broncos and the Patriarchy By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After nearly a century of being denied the opportunity, women are riding bucking broncos in American rodeo once again, and regaining the respect they deserve.
I’m Writing You from Tehran By Longreads Feature A French-Iranian journalist writes a letter to her grandfather about the ten years she spent in Iran, trying to make sense of her identity and a country living very different public and private lives.
Into the Wild On an E-Scooter By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What happens when you ride an e-scooter out of the city limits — until its battery dies?
‘Play Another Slow Jam, This Time Make It Sweet’ By Danielle Jackson Feature The term “slow jam” became widely popular when a song performed by Midnight Star debuted in 1983.
‘Women Can Be Required To Wear Something That’s Painful.’ By Victoria Namkung Feature Summer Brennan talks about femininity and suffering, beauty and biology, and the startlingly dark turn she found herself taking when writing about women and power in her new book ‘High Heel.’
Deciphering the Language of the Body in China By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In China, a British expat learns a whole new way to speak with her body.
What to Read After ‘Leaving Neverland’ By Danielle Jackson Reading List A list of longreads to make sense of ‘Leaving Neverland.’
The Blaming of the Shrew By Sara Fredman Feature Golden Age antiheroes and the nasty women who humanized them.
Living to Tell About It By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Struggling with trauma, sexual objectification, and self-harm, the teenage T Kira Madden found salvation in her close relationships with other young women.
Parenting in the New Age of Anxiety By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Are we sacrificing our childrens’ inner lives by protecting them too much?
The Hackers Who Led a Young Woman to Her Death By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How did an ambitious, kind 23-year-old go from working at a California cannabis dispensary to living in Manila with an internet criminal?
The Precarity of Everything: On Millennial (Blacks and) Blues By Danielle Jackson Feature Reniqua Allen — the author of It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America — on Black millennials, millennial burnout, and hope in a time of uncertainty.
Remembering James Ingram By Tom Maxwell Commentary The R&B singer and songwriter made it look easy, even when it wasn’t.
Preparing for the Worst in Arkansas By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The Arkansas Defense Force is prepared for disaster. Are you?
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee By Longreads Feature “Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”
Carvell Wallace on ‘Moonlight’ Writer Tarell Alvin McCarney’s Next Acts By Danielle Jackson Highlight Tarell Alvin McCarney’s Broadway debbut,, “Choir Boy,” is a tender coming of age story about a queer Black boy at a prestigious boarding school.
Musicians Come Clean on How They Live, Create, and Thrive While Sober By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Chris Heath at GQ interviews nine sober musicians on thriving creatively.
Land Not Theirs By Madison Davis Feature Reckoning with a religious upbringing means confronting religion’s role in oppressing women and people of color.
A Childhood in Cars By Joshua James Amberson Feature How one young man cut against the grain of American masculinity and freed himself from car culture.
Memory and the Lost Cause By Danielle Jackson Feature An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.
‘It Happened to My Father the Way It Happened’: The Truth About Green Book By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight At Vanity Fair, film critic K. Austin Collins explores the shaky “true story” of Green Book, the film by Peter Farrelly starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.
How One Alabama Sherriff Worked Openly to Oppress People of Color By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Here’s what voter suppression looked like in Alabama in the middle of the 20th century.
Building Parks on Antiquities Sites Is Not OK By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How the Arizona State Parks and Trails Director got fired for violating the Arizona Antiquities Act.
Alexa de Paris By Miles Marshall Lewis Feature Miles Marshall Lewis remembers a love of Prince and Paris.
Partners in Crime: The Life, Loves & Nuyorican Noir of Jerry Rodriguez By Michael Gonzales Feature Michael Gonzales remembers a real friendship and the makings of a brutal crime novel.
How the U.S. Systematically Puts Black Farmers Out of Business By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How America stacks the deck against black farmers.
The Resplendent Photography of Carrie Mae Weems By Danielle Jackson Highlight Carrie Mae Weems may be our best contemporary photographer.
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