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Cocaine, Kanye West and Shitty Jobs

Zhandarka Kurti

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by Zhandarka Kurti  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 ...

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Date Night in Astoria, Queens

Zhandarka Kurti

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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 “Casa ...

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