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On Monday, teachers at the Irving Independent School District in Irving, Texas, had police arrest a 14-year-old student named Ahmed Mohamed for building a simple electronic clock as an engineering project. Police escorted Mohamed of out of school in handcuffs — photos of the arrest show him wearing a NASA T-shirt — and accused him of…
On Monday night, the Atlantic published Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” The article, the longest the magazine has run in a decade, limns America’s long history of believing African Americans are predisposed to lawlessness and using that assumption to justify a racist police state that locks up African Americans in huge…
Bitch Planet is the best kind of fucked-up: a comic that entertains, breaks hearts and wields the power to change the way you look at the world around you. Kelly Sue DeConnick writes something incredibly cruel in the first issue of Bitch Planet. There’s a scene in the comic—written by DeConnick, with art and design…
IRVING — Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday. Instead, the school phoned police about Ahmed’s circuit-stuffed pencil case. So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in…
For all its rough and rugged mystique, masculinity can be the most vulnerable of traits. Forged by the knuckle-worn fists thumping hard against Homosapien chests, and honed to a fine sheen in the gladiator bathhouses of ancient Rome, the fragile male ego is now under threat by the greatest force the world has ever known:…
Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 There’s no running from worldbuilding anymore. A tidbit of information about The Hunger Games films or “Game of Thrones” leaks, provoking fans and news outlets alike into a frenzy. Entire wikis are meticulously curated for each series, every line and scene analyzed for maximum informative potential. The ability to craft an expansive…
Lynchburg, VA—Amos 5:24- But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like a never-failing stream. Atop the football stadium at Liberty University runs a big sign that reads “HOME OF THE FLAMES.” The same slogan as Hell. And the same beguiling tableau. Heaven and hell: two sides of the same coin, indistinguishable twins….
Now that summer’s over, it’s official: Jurassic World wasn’t just the biggest movie of the season; it’s the biggest summer movie of all time. But Jurassic World’s box office success belies a different trend: Hollywood is actually losing revenue in the US. And Jurassic World, which was criticized for its portrayal of women, may not be the best model for the film…
Yesterday marked the 44th anniversary of the release of John Lennon’s goody-goody solo album Imagine, on which he softly bleats for world peace and borderless harmony. Described by Rolling Stone as Lennon’s “greatest musical gift to the world,” the song of the same name fantasizes about a mankind without qualities of evil and suffering,…
Last night was the fourth season premiere of HBO’s Project Greenlight—a Matt Damon and Ben Affleck passion project where they give first time filmmakers the chance to make a movie. It also provided a platform for Matt Damon to deliver a masterclass in whitesplaining—a whitesplaining sermon, if you will. They enlist a group of producers…