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The child looked out across the field of Pizzas and asked the Papa "Holy Papa, what is a man to do with 40 Pizzas and only 30 days and 30

How did it come to this? A racial reckoning. An antiracist revolution. My cover essay for the Sept. issue @TheAtlantic argues America is ending its denial. No president has caused

Comcast corporation (NBC), the Pultizer center, Shell Oil, the New York Times, the leading newspaper in the country -- at some point you have to recognize that you are telling

Since June, I’ve been working on a story about racism and inequity at FFA (Future Farmers of America), the country’s largest student farm organization, and the Black alumni who are

For me, this is actually the major flaw within the concept of “white privilege”. By making it solely about “unearned privilege” instead of the violence of white supremacy, it enables

After I returned from Afghanistan, I realized that 21st-century American patriotism is crass, slippery& gross.Our soldiers don’t need gimmicky reverence. They need a nation that stops misusing their service.Some thoughts

Careful with that person you don’t like. That person is somebody Jesus loves. He takes poor treatment of them personally. Don’t make Him have to get up. There’s gonna be

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Leaving my shift today it became more evident to me that NYC’s #COVID19 pandemic will be a tale of two cities. The essential and service workers mostly Black, Brown and

Just finished Dostoevsky’s “The Insulted and the Injured.” It’s generally regarded as his weakest novel. But having read as much Dostoevsky as I have, it seems to be layered with

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I spoke to 12 current & former Global News employees who described a culture of racist microaggressions & retaliation for speaking out. They say the company laid off some of

One day the Afg-Am community will be ready to talk about class and privilege within the diaspora but until that reckoning some of y’all need to really check yourselves Those

So just from memory: Trump owes $1b, he committed 10s of millions in tax fraud, he deliberately concealed a pandemic from America and now 210,000 are dead and he STILL

Rudy Havenstein, Elysium ESG Diversity Officer

I have two main issues:1. The military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about in 1961, and, related to that,2. The Big Bank crime wave and associated kleptocracy...plus all the politicians, institutions,

🛡 Prof. Colin Talbot 🛡

Mass gatherings weren't a problem. Then they wereSchool closures weren't needed. They they wereWHO rec PPE wasn't neccesary - then it wasCommunity testing wasn't needed. Now it is (but isn't

I think about this work a lot: [they] "would insist that the nation own up to its deep shame. The actions that followed were called Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung, which translates to 'working

really fucking proud of myself for insisting on a formally documented exit interview at my almost former job to explicitly explain that I am leaving due to an environment that