“But there are many kinds of travel, many reasons to move. Sometimes you travel so that the process of becoming that is your inner life has an external correlative in your movement across space...
Nickelodeon's Diversity "Problem" Is That It Likes Diversity : > I will tell you that even from a young age I avoided programming > that didn’t include me because I though...
“ Johnny Cash “shot a man in Reno just to watch him die,” and we’re not scared. We just love Johnny more. But when the gun in the song is in the hand of a black man, things get weird. ...
“ Cosmopolitanism, openness to other cultures, openness to education did not make the Cherokee pliant to American power; it gave them tools to resist. Realizing this, the United States dropped...
Full coverage of the Michael Brown homicide and its aftermath from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch & STLtoday.com : Stltoday : All other things aside, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s coverage of th...
“The Body of Michael Brown” | Brent McDonald and Alexandra Garcia for The New York Times
“ Surveys of racial attitudes in the U.S. suggest integrated communities like Ferguson are vulnerable to a certain type of instability based on expectations, tolerance, class and the pace of a...
“ A report issued just last week by the nonprofit lawyer’s group ArchCity Defenders notes that in the court’s 36 three-hour sessions in 2013, it handled 12,108 cases and 24,532 warrants. T...
What Black Parents Tell Their Sons About the Police : > A Tumblr quote floated over to me about around the time of Trayvon > Martin’s murder, from a Jonathan Lethem book ...
“The notion that violence within the black community is “background noise” is not supported by the historical record—or by Google. I have said this before. It’s almost as if Stop The Vi...
Second Childhood : betsyboodad : > I am one who laughed at older people buying toys like convertibles, > motorcycles and the like. I was one of the derogatory guys who...
“Look for the soft emotion: “One of my favorite pieces of advice come from an observation I once heard from two fellow Council on Contemporary Families board members, psychologist Philip and ...
Tea and Defiance : Sounds right.
wolfae : > lord-kitschener > : > > >> thegingerbalrog >> : >> >> >>> my-fandom-life >>> : >>> >>> >>>> dismantlerepaired >>>> : >>>> �...
theparisreview : > INTERVIEWER > > “When did you realize that you had talent?” > > GAY TALESE > > “Never. All I have is intense curiosity.” > > —The...
businessweek : > Less than one-third of developing nation populations have access to > the Internet. So many implications to this. (Also: connections to Salon’s “Too Poor f...
oscarwildecentre : > “Opposite of a Thank You” by Erin Fornoff: A rebuke to a mentor > who wanted to trade favors for sex. > > “So this is the opposite of�...
fishingboatproceeds : > Many nerdfighters have asked for some historical and political > context to help understand the crisis in Ukraine. I gave a go at an > introducti...
I would love to see you try to explain in a way that isn't shockingly racist why O'Henry and O'Conner are quote, "normal names" while Nyong'o isn't a "normal name" Let’s note that “familiar...
theparisreview : > Portrait of Henry Green > , > who infamously refused photographs. “I didn’t want my business > associates to know I wrote novels. Most of them do�...