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Coming to America
I was 12 years old when I first watched the movie Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy, about a pampered African prince who travels to Queens, New York to look for a wife that he can ...
Growing a Life Worth Living
by Max Mackay Each day that I wake up begins with a sigh. Rolling out of bed in the afternoon, I feed my cats and walk outside. I sit, watch the birds, and enjoy some cannabis. ...
Army having difficulty recruiting
Facing low recruitment levels, the U.S. Army quietly lifted its ban on allowing people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military โ despite warnings from the industry about ...
Lost Opportunity
Roy Moore, Republican nominee to fill the U.S. Senate seat from Alabama vacated by Jeff Sessions, has been accused of sexually harassing teenage girls, including a fourteen-year-old. Moore is the founder and president of the Foundation ...
So what have we here?
by Bob Gerst So what have we here? There’s a scan (black with white squiggles) I made tonight of an insect of some kind that had fallen in our mail. There’s a slide from about 1970 ...
Hard Crackers Event: Sunday, November 5, 2017, Brooklyn
Hard Crackers is honored to be hosting Marcus Rediker for a reading from his new book, The Fearless Benjamin Lay, and a discussion on Sunday, November 5th at 2 PM in Brooklyn, NY. Join Marcus and ...
Cocaine, Kanye West and Shitty Jobs
by Zhandarka Kurtiย Around this time last year, I met Mike, a black man in his mid 40s, in the offices of a non-profit organization working with formerly incarcerated people. Its offices are located in a ...
Date Night in Astoria, Queens
I get out of the cab and find myself in front of a large stone building resembling a foreign embassy, not unlike the ones you find in the upper east side of Manhattan. The words โCasa ...
Why He Did It
by John Garvey The authorities and the media sometimes seem more annoyed and frustrated at Stephen Paddock because they can’t figure out why he did it than they are about him killing 58 people and wounding ...
BOTH KINDS
By Kingsley Clarke Adel, Iowa 1986 Frankly, I cannot recall whether or not I have actuallyย had a Bud Light. In 1986 I went back to Adel, Iowa, for my twenty-fifth high school class reunion. Adel was ...