New York Theatre Workshop The subversive ‘Slave Play’ peels back the veneer of racial innocence in Northern whitesThe Undefeated - By Soraya Nadia McDonald Jeremy O. Harris’ play puts interracial couples in sex therapy to show how whites see themselves as racially neutral This essay is riddled with …
Amazon Web Services Hey, Jeff Bezos: I work for Amazon – and I'm protesting against your firm's climate inactionThe Guardian - Ben TarnoffA lot of people don’t realize the strength they can wield in their workplace. I certainly didn't When you see workers at other companies taking a stand, you want to take a stand yourself Since late last
Los Angeles County Locked out of L.A.'s white neighborhoods, they built a black suburb. Now they’re homelessLos Angeles Times - Gale HollandDuane Pierfax grew up after World War II in Pacoima, one of the few Los Angeles suburbs that offered the American dream of home ownership to African Americans who had been locked out of other neighborhoods
Bernie Sanders On the Job, 24 Hours a Day, 27 Days a MonthThe New York Times - By ANDY NEWMANSTAMFORD, Conn. — Tuesday night was rough. A sharp scent drifted into Marjorie Salmon’s dream world at 4 a.m. She was still trying to rouse herself when its source, her 77-year-old client, pounded on bedroom
Long-form Journalism The New American Homelessnewrepublic.com - Brian Goldstone Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans. Last August, Cokethia Goodman …
Play buttonDocumentaries Traveling While Black: behind the eye-opening VR documentary on racism in AmericaThe Guardian - Dream McClintonThe theatre has luxurious red velvet upholstered seats, grand ceilings and gilded trimmings. The rows of chairs stretch back into the ostensible blackness, with light beaming from the projector room. archival
Unions I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one.Vox - German LopezOn November 17, 2017, right after the Vox Media editorial staff started a push to unionize, I sent out my worst tweets of all time. “I am against #VoxUnion,” I wrote in one of the tweets. I wrote in another,
Patriot PrayerUndercover in Patriot Prayer: Insights From a Vancouver Democrat Who's Been Working Against the Far-Right Group from theportlandmercury.com - Alex Zielinski Since 2017, far-right groups have flocked to notoriously liberal Portland to march, yell, and engage in violent clashes with left-wing activists. …
Amazon Rainforest here's what to do if you're angry about the amazon rainforest firesi-D USA - Douglas GreenwoodWe're angry too. Here's how to channel that energy into something useful. The image that was shared around the world was horrifically dystopian. On Monday, the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo plummeted into
Eric Garner After Pantaleo, Wary N.Y.P.D. Officers Say No One Has Their BacksThe New York Times - By MICHAEL WILSON and JOSEPH GOLDSTEINThe video of the final moments in the life of Eric Garner and his cries for help — “I can’t breathe” — ignited swift outrage, launching a campaign against aggressive policing and fueling the Black Lives
EPA The 6 things you most need to know about Trump’s new climate planVox - David RobertsIn June, the Trump administration unveiled its proposed replacement for the Clean Power Plan, Obama’s program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. Last week, a coalition of 29
Policing Getting killed by police is a leading cause of death for young black men in AmericaLos Angeles Times - Amina KhanAbout 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police, according to a new analysis of deaths involving law enforcement officers. That makes them 2.5 times more likely
African-American News Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Sit Down.afroculinaria.com - michaelwtwitty Hi! My name is Michael W. Twitty and I’m one of those interpreters who has watched you squirm or run away. I’m not a reenactor, because G-d forbid I …
YouTube How YouTube Radicalized BrazilThe New York Times - Max Fisher and Amanda TaubNITERÓI, Brazil — When Matheus Dominguez was 16, YouTube recommended a video that changed his life. He was in a band in Niterói, a beach-ringed city in Brazil, and practiced guitar by watching tutorials
'Blood on their hands': the intelligence officer whose warning over white supremacy was ignoredGuardian US - Lois Beckett in San FranciscoTen years ago, the Department of Homeland Security sent American law enforcement agencies an intelligence briefing warning of a rising threat of domestic rightwing extremism, including white supremacist
Where Taking the Concerns of Racists Seriously Has Gotten Usslate.com - Tom Scocca Police and state troopers keep watch outside the Cielo Vista Mall Walmart where a shooting left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas, on August 4, 2019. …
Women's News Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal womanThe Guardian - Jia TolentinoHow we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization. By Jia Tolentino The ideal woman has always been generic. I bet you can picture the version of her that runs the show today. She’s of indeterminate
Wealth American Wealth Is BrokenThe Atlantic - Maura CheeksMy family is a success story. We’re also evidence of the long odds African Americans face on the path to success. Editor’s Note: This article was supported by The Atlantic’s membership program. Learn Wealth
I was a fast-food worker. Let me tell you about burnout.Vox - Emily GuendelsbergerIf you had to make a rat depressed, how do you think you’d go about it? (Okay, you can’t technically make a rat “depressed” — a scientist would ask how to “create a model of depression” in rats. Actually
This is Going to Get Worse | Ed Burmilathebaffler.com - Amber A’Lee Frost Watching a virtually all-white crowd of viciously angry, red-faced people chanting “Send her back!” at the mention of Representative Ilhan Omar …
Hate Crimes Hate crimes increased 226% in places Trump held a campaign rally in 2016, study claimsBusiness Insider - David ChoiUS counties where President Donald Trump held a campaign rally saw a 226% increase in reported hate crimes over similar counties that did not hold a rally, political scientists at the University of North
I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked.The New York Times - By CLAUDIA RANKINEIn the early days of the run-up to the 2016 election, I was just beginning to prepare a class on whiteness to teach at Yale University, where I had been newly hired. Over the years, I had come to realize
“It was hard to take Nazi memes all that seriously when they were sandwiched between sassy cats”Nieman Lab - Joshua BentonWhen we think of the nightmarish edge of online culture — the trolling, the disinformation, the rage, the profound information pollution — it’s easy to think of the worst offenders. 4chan denizens, for-the-lulz
Amazon Web Services Amazon Prime Day could usher in a new wave of fear-based social media usageRecode - Rani MollaMany more American homes will have surveillance devices after this year’s Amazon Prime Day sale. As a promotion during its 36-hour Prime shopping event, the e-commerce giant is selling its Ring video and
It Was Never About BusingThe New York Times - By NIKOLE HANNAH-JONESWhen Senator Kamala Harris confronted former Vice President Joe Biden at the second Democratic presidential debate about his support of bills to ban busing for school desegregation during the 1970s and
Gab How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problemThe Verge - Adi RobertsonOver the past few years, Mastodon has become the model for a friendlier kind of social network, promising to keep out the hateful or ugly content that proliferates on larger and more centralized networks.
When a Dating Dare Leads to Months of Soul SearchingThe New York Times - By ANDREW LEEAt 2 a.m., two blocks from Chinatown, Sarah ended our first date by telling me that my race might be an issue. What was supposed to be a one-hour coffee date had evolved into a nine-hour marathon. From
It’s Not Entirely Up to School Students to Save the WorldThe New Yorker - Bill McKibbenIn the past several months, people around the world have watched in awe as school students, led by the Swedish teen-ager Greta Thunberg, have taken their concerns about the climate crisis to a new level,
