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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The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2017: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Standout, Story
David Brown’s Quiet Resilience
The former Dallas police chief is familiar with loss: Violence took his son, younger brother, and former partner. His response to the killing of five officers last July was inspiring. He’s not done giving back.
Posted inEditor's Pick
It’s Always Sunny in ‘Philadelphia’
How Philadelphia Magazine rose while the city’s newspapers floundered and its alt-weekly fell.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Muscle Memory: A Case History
While healing from a back injury, Mariam I. Williams learns to let go of the ways she has been taught to mistrust her body.
Posted inStory
The Encyclopedia of the Missing
She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
A Storyteller, Unbecoming
On showing, telling, and finding one’s way as a literary writer of color.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we’re sharing stories by Jason Fagone, Betty Ann Adam, Christian H. Cooper, Clarissa Wei, and Robert Kolker.
