The Skin I’m In: Stories By Writers of Color
I wanted to share these stories about love and music and beauty and family. These stories are also about hair, about plastic surgery, about skin color, about contending with the harmful standards imposed by white privilege. They’re all written by writers of color, whose stories don’t always get the air time they deserve.
The Man Who Beat HIV at Its Own Game for 30 Years
For 25 years, Kai Brothers, who is HIV positive, has been studied by AIDS researchers because he has been healthy and has never taken HIV drugs. Brothers now faces a vexing choice—a dilemma that mirrors a quandary for modern medicine.
ZPM Espresso and the Rage of the Jilted Crowdfunder
A Kickstarter project gets fully funded by backers, who become irate and consider legal action when the project fails to deliver. The creators explain what went wrong.
Inside the Story of Ethan Couch and the ‘Affluenza’ Phenomenon
On June 15, 2013, an inebriated 16-year-old named Ethan Crouch slammed into four people with his truck, killing them instantly. During his sentencing hearing a psychologist infamously blamed his bad behavior on “affluenza,” a portmanteau describing the psychological problems that can affect children who come from money. Mooney takes us behind the story.
A Rare, Personal Look at Oliver Sacks’s Early Career
Lawrence Weschler, a close friend of Oliver Sacks, looks back on the life of the best-selling author and neurologist in the early ’80s.
An Alternative-Medicine Believer’s Journey Back to Science
How the parents of two autistic sons found—and lost—faith in the alternative medicine movement.
Freddie Roach Is the Best Damned Trainer Alive
A profile of Freddie Roach, Manny Pacquiao’s longtime trainer.
Slavery and Freedom in New York City
The story of slavery in New York, the messy path to abolition, and a shameful history with which America has yet to come to terms.
From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation
It’s not just about the police: A brief history of how cities, including Baltimore, experienced “a century of public policy designed, consciously so, to segregate and impoverish its black population.”
Lost in a Broken System
Beauty left the streets of the Bronx and returned to her native Oklahoma to turn her life around. Old charges brought her forcibly back to New York, trapping her in an inflexible and overwhelmed legal system.
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