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  How Chris Jackson Is Building a Black Literary Movement

  The New York Times - By Vinson Cunningham

  On an unnervingly balmy November day, the scene at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn was restless and expectant. Ta-Nehisi Coates was scheduled to appear on campus for a discussion about his best-selling book, ‘‘Between the World and Me.’’ Evers has a student body that is over 80 percent black, and …

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  Nabeel Chollampat

  

  The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy

  Vulture

  The oldest joke on record, a Sumerian proverb, was first told all the way back in 1900 B.C. Yes, it was a fart joke: “Something which has never …

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  Nabeel Chollampat

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  Nabeel Chollampat

  

  The Death Penalty’s Last Stand

  slate.com - By Charles Ogletree

  Capital punishment is collapsing under the weight of its own corruption and cruelty. Carl Staples moved his family to Shreveport, Louisiana a few …

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  Nabeel Chollampat

  

  The George Awakens

  The New Yorker - Bryan Curtis

  For fanboys everywhere “The Force Awakens” was supposed to have one happy side effect: it would exile George Lucas from the galaxy he created. In 2012, Lucas sold his company and his homegrown mythology—I think we call it I.P. now—to Disney. To no one’s chagrin, Disney discarded his proposed …

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  Nabeel Chollampat

  

  Finding Raffi

  Vulture - Sheila Heti

  Iam ashamed to admit this, but the main thing I wondered after meeting Raffi — the beloved children’s entertainer, the one-man Beatles of my …