Baking Through a Plague
“On one of her monthly brownie runs, my mom caught her first glimpse of the monster coming our way.”
Crosses, Flags, Arches
Goodbye Ronald, you disturbing simulacrum; you’re not authentic enough for 21st century marketing. “In this new age of the ad, McDonald’s could no longer tolerate a spokesperson that in any way existed apart from them, and this was the beginning of the end for him.”
My Black Ancestors Fled America For Freedom. I Left Canada to Find a Home. Now Both Countries Must Fight For a Better World
“You know, Debra, your daughter was the first Thompson born in America since Cornelius Thompson escaped slavery. It’s been over 150 years, and some days I think we came back too soon.”
Bone, Blood & Bigots: On The Liberation of L.B. Jones
“A 1965 novel about racial injustice and police brutality in the Deep South was hailed by critics and made into a major movie. The story would haunt its author until the bitter end.”
Pandemic Time
“The distorted experience of time through the COVID-19 pandemic reveals it to be an atemporal liminal passage between two great historic eras.”
A Deadly Mosquito-Borne Illness Is Brewing in the Northeast
“EEE kills almost half of its victims, and cases are on the rise.”
Rewriting Country Music’s Racist History
“First, you exclude black people from the festivals. Then write them out by not recording them. And pretty soon, ‘you have this manufactured image of country music being white and being poor. But when a narrative is that clean,’ Giddens warns, ‘somebody wrote it.'”
The Strong, Silent Type
“What are tears for?”
From Soldier to Worker
“Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?”
City of Solitude
“For 76 days, 9 million people in Wuhan slept, ate, and waited inside the largest quarantine in human history. Four people reveal what they saw and what happened after the lockdown ended.”
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