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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine Staff, Melissa del Bosque, Nitasha Tiku, Sarah Gilman, and Tift Merritt.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Walking Across California
To understand what the Golden State is compared to what it was, one solitary hiker follows the trail of the first overland Spanish expedition into California 250 years later.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Kids Are Not Alright: How Opioids are Destroying American Families
As mom and dad nod out and overdose, the under-funded American foster care system is struggling to mind the children.
Posted inCurrent Events, Profiles & Interviews, Reading List, Unapologetic Women
Stacey Abrams’ Historic Win in Georgia: A Reading List
Stacey Abrams’ win in Georgia could put one of the U.S.’s most populous red states in play for progressives for the first time in decades.
Posted inCrime, Unapologetic Women
“That sort of thing doesn’t happen in America.”
Tasneem Raja recalls her own female genital mutilation, which took “place in the bedroom of a family acquaintance in New Jersey in the late ’80s.”
Posted inStory
A Lover’s Blues: The Unforgettable Voice of Margie Hendrix
Remembering the woman who outsang Ray Charles.
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Protect that Underwear Zone: Abstinence Only Sex Education
“When my state passed one of the most rigid abstinence-only sex education laws in the nation, I went back to school.”
Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Crime, Culture, Current Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Standout, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter One: A Quiet Man
When a bomb exploded in a tiny desert town, there was no doubt who did it. But no one could understand why.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Understanding Craig Stecyk
Stecyk defined Southern California’s subversive, skateboard aesthetic and changed art and culture in the process, but that doesn’t mean he wants to talk about it.
