Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Here I go. I’m really so sick of the reality that talking about race should be restricted to audiences of color or spaces which cater to the socially conscious. If there’s one thing I’ve learned by working in online media these past few years, it’s that a disheartening majority of media consumers are unwilling…
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The following is the latest in a new series of articles on AlterNet called Fear in America that launched this March. Read the introduction to the series. When black people wake up and begin the day, we have a wide range of issues we have to think about before leaving our homes. Will a police…
Big City By GINIA BELLAFANTE Late in the afternoon on St. Patrick’s Day, Glen Grays, a 27-year-old African-American mail carrier, was making his rounds in Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, about to leave a package at 999 President Street. Mr. Grays prides himself on getting to know the community he serves, he told me on Wednesday….
Buried in the manufactured drama around last night’s finale of “The Bachelor”—in which Bachelor Ben Higgins ended up proposing to Lauren Bushnell, after an agonizing period in Jamaica where he claimed to be in love with two different women—was a far more significant and broad-reaching story: that of which Americans are allowed to become America’s…
/end .figure To my enduring surprise, responses and reactions to this piece continue to trickle in — some in the form of emails and tweets and pending comments, some in the form of essays on related topics. Most of the people who’ve reached out to me personally have been supportive, and many have shared similar stories. As for the people who…
To the unassuming eye, Harvard Law School’s 80-year-old shield is just three sheaves of wheat. But the image is actually based on the crest of the Royalls, a slave-owning US family that helped establish the school’s first professorship in the 18th century. Due to its historic association with racism, Harvard Law students—amid a national debate…
West Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2016.Jim Young/Reuters Photo from “Postcards From America” by Mark Power/Magnum Photos “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically, you’ll find this pearl adorning a classroom or splashed across a motivational poster….
Before Nathalie Miller decided to walk away from Instacart, the grocery delivery start-up now worth more than $2 billion, she made a spreadsheet to analyze how much money she was leaving on the table. She had been Instacart’s 20th employee, managing operations during a period of extremely rapid growth, and the sum could have been…
With the academy awards coming up, Last Week Tonight asks: Hollywood whitewashing…how is this still a thing? Connect with Last Week Tonight online…Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight Find Last Week Tonight on Facebook like your mom would:http://Facebook.com/LastWeekTonight Follow us on Twitter for news…
Photo Protesters rallied in Brooklyn on Feb. 20 to support the former N.Y.P.D. officer Peter Liang. Credit Craig Ruttle/Associated Press Every public thing that happens to Asian-Americans — whether the unexpected ascent of a Harvard-educated basketball star, the premiere of a network family sitcom or the conviction of a 28-year-old rookie cop who shot and…