In the 1960s, black students at the Ivies organized and protested for fair treatment, their personal safety, to create black studies programs, and to stop their universities from harming local black communities through expansion and urban renewal.
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Why Lhasa de Sela Matters
Raised in a school bus by itinerant hippie parents, with one foot in Mexico and one in the US, the singer blossomed into her true multicultural self in bilingual Montreal.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Unapologetic Women
Women Are Really, Really Mad Right Now
Rebecca Traister talks about the revolutionary power of women’s anger.
Posted inBooks, Business, History, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
The Queering of the Baby Bells
Highly public pressure campaigns against telephone companies were the crux of early LGBTQ activism.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Quotes
‘Everyone is Guilty All the Time’
Is prosecuting crimes about justice, or conviction rates? In Shelby County, Tennessee, the answer isn’t so clear.
Posted inNonfiction
The Christmas Tape
Wendy McClure recounts how an old audio tape of holiday music becomes a record of family history, unspoken rituals, and grief.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re featuring stories by Reeves Wiedeman, Monica Mark, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Daniel Duane, and Danny Chau.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Jay Caspian Kang, Ryan Goldberg, Brendan I. Koerner, Andrew Richdale, and Ferris Jabr.
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‘People Can Become Houses’
In her debut memoir, Sarah Broom builds her “obsession” with her family home — destroyed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina — into a story of how families decide who they are, how they got here, and how they reconstruct themselves over and over again.
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William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll
From Bob Dylan to David Bowie to The Beatles, the legendary Beat writer’s influence reached beyond literature into music in surprising ways.
