City Girls Are More Like You Than You Think

A profile of Miami hip-hop duo City Girls.

Source: The Cut
Published: Sep 26, 2018
Length: 17 minutes (4,350 words)

‘I Was Ashamed’: After Ford’s Accusation, Holton-Arms Alumnae Wrestle With Their Own Truths — Together

“These places make more bad apples. And they take the bad apples and polish them up to be shiny apples, who can one day be nominees to the Supreme Court.”

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Sep 27, 2018
Length: 17 minutes (4,370 words)

Canadian History Isn’t Boring

Podcasts and strong storytelling with diverse voices can show the world how fascinating Canadian history is.

Source: The Walrus
Published: Sep 3, 2018
Length: 6 minutes (1,597 words)

Alabama May Have Solutions to the Nation’s Black Maternal Health Crisis

Group prenatal care led by nurse midwives at a progressive clinic in Birmingham could offer a solution to the crisis in maternal health in the U.S.

Published: Sep 24, 2018
Length: 10 minutes (2,624 words)

Midwifery Makes a Comeback in Alabama

In the first of a two-part series on midwifery in Alabama, where it has been criminalized for 40 years, Scalawag interviews a Certified Professional Midwife whose work attending home births had previously been underground.

Published: Sep 3, 2018
Length: 13 minutes (3,326 words)

The Next Level of Commitment: Revealing Our Money Secrets

A personal essay in which Vanessa Golenia contemplates the ins-and-outs of merging finances as the higher earner — and bigger spender — in her (heterosexual) relationship.

Source: Longreads
Published: Sep 26, 2018
Length: 18 minutes (4,692 words)

Mourning at the Magic Kingdom

A day after burying her father after his sudden death at age 67, Nicole Chung and her young family go on a long-planned vacation to Disney World, where she finds that making new family memories is one way to honor old family memories.

Source: Slate
Published: Sep 25, 2018
Length: 12 minutes (3,151 words)

The Dad-Joke Doctrine

“What did the farmer say when he lost his tractor? ‘Where’s my tractor?’”

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Sep 25, 2018
Length: 10 minutes (2,512 words)

Brett Kavanaugh and the Cruelty of Male Bonding

It’d be really great if y’all could figure out a way to impress each other than didn’t involve assaulting or demeaning women.

Source: Slate
Published: Sep 25, 2018
Length: 7 minutes (1,963 words)

How Auto-Tune Revolutionized the Sound of Popular Music

Twenty years after this famous pitch-correction technology beautifully modulated Cher’s voice in her hit song “Believe,” Auto-Tune has proven itself not a fad but a fixture. Where did it come from, and what does it do exactly?

Source: Pitchfork
Published: Sep 17, 2018
Length: 38 minutes (9,619 words)