ESPN Sportscenter host Jemele Hill has been suspended for two weeks for simply doing what she was hired to do: provide commentary on the news.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
A Remarkable Child
My friend Sam went back to Brooklyn and his gang of peculiar white buddies watching their endless Stanley Kubrick film festival. I shall not see him again.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
El camino al asilo
Las mujeres trans migran para escapar de la violencia y mantenerse con vida. Alice Driver acompañó a una de estas mujeres en su viaje.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Unapologetic Women
The Unforgettable Edie Windsor
It’s said about a lot of people, but true of only a few: There was something special about Edie.
Posted inNonfiction
True Roots
One woman quits coloring her gray hair and investigates the human and environmental costs of this contentious female beauty standard.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Daughter as Detective
A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books.
Posted inStory
Notes on Citizenship
Nina Li Coomes reckons with the quandary of citizenship and the meaning of home.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Paul Auster: ‘I’m Going to Speak Out as Often as I Can, Otherwise I Can’t Live with Myself’
The publication of 4321, Paul Auster’s new 900-page novel, coincides with the author’s seventieth birthday. In an interview at the Guardian, he talks about escaping death as a child, writing a story about the what-ifs that haunt us, and learning how to live his life in the years ahead under a Trump presidency.
Posted inNonfiction
It’s Like That: The Makings of a Hip-Hop Writer
Hip-hop was a different kind of music that needed a different kind of writer to cover it. This is how Michael A. Gonzales came of age in a time when Black writers began breaking the white ceiling.
