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Unlike Gwyneth Paltrow, millennials understand the reality of food stamps
By Jana Kasperkevic If she was true to her word, Gwyneth Paltrow should be finishing up her food stamp challenge having spent a week trying to survive on $29 worth of food. Alana Folsom, a twentysomething graduate student, knows something … Continue reading
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Tagged commentary, EBT, food, food insecurity, Gwyneth Paltrow, life, Snap, United States
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What Is the Bronx, Anyway?
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells The Bronx, Anthony Bourdain said this fall on an episode of Parts Unknown devoted to the borough, “is a big blank space in a lot of people’s minds. Including me and I live, what, ten minutes away.” … Continue reading
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Tagged birth of hip-hop, commentary, New York City, The Bronx
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Walter Scott: Week by bloody week, my America is sliding back towards slavery
By Michael W. Twitty For the United States, and with it, the entire western world, this past week should have been time to reflect on a monumental anniversary: the true end of chattel slavery in the United States 150 years … Continue reading
Why the 99 Percent Keeps Losing
By Robert Kuttner Our current political situation is unprecedented. The vast majority of Americans keep falling behind economically because of changes in society’s ground rules, while the rich get even richer — yet this situation doesn’t translate into a winning … Continue reading
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Tagged 99%, commentary, economy, employment, income inequality, politics, United States
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How Lee Daniels’ ‘Empire’ improved upon Tyler Perry’s brand of drama
By Demetria Lucas D’Oyley I missed the initial airing of the Empire finale. I’d planned to stay home and live-tweet it like I usually do, but a friend called me crazy. “You’d rather sit home and watch people build an … Continue reading
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Tagged black, commentary, drama, Empire, entertainment, Fox, Lee Daniels, Soap opera, Taraji P. Henson, television, Terrence Howard
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Why Not Make Voting Mandatory?
By Charles D. Ellison Convoluted and restrictive voter ID measures got you down? Still rubbing the migraine you got from voter-suppression laws? Banging your head against the wall when voter turnout is too low? Worry no more, fam, we’ve got … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, Australia, black, civil power, commentary, law, mandatory voting, Voter suppression, voting, voting rights
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The Politics of Being Woke
By Lawrence Ware “Who polices the woke?” The question caught me off guard. My line brother posed it to me as I was on my way to a meeting. We are members of the first historically black Greek collegiate … Continue reading →