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Cats, Rats and Bats: Dick Whittingtonโs Cat, Rat Infestations and the Trump Quackery
At the foot of Highgate Hill in North London is a statue of Dick Whittingtonโs cat.ย The Dick Whittington story is a part of English folklore.ย It has been embellished over the centuries, and re-enacted through ...
“Enough is Enough!” A Letter from Ramsey Orta
“These DOCCS employees working under the color of law with a badge of authority from the State of New York, knowingly and maliciously engage in criminal activity with state sanctioned impunity from acting Commissioner of DOCCS, ...
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Losing Kathy: Slow Violence and Social Service Work in New York City
One of my last conversations at Ladders Services was with the Medical Examinerโs office after I heard Kathy had died.* My cubicle was in a cellar with an open floor plan, shared with other cubicles, and ...
In Plain Sight (if we looked)
For the past couple of months, weโve been seeing news reports and ads that tell us: โWeโre all in this togetherโ and โWeโre strongโ and โWeโll never forget our heroesโ.ย Most of the reports and ads ...
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Southern Solidarity: Mutual Aid in New Orleans Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Recently we had a chance to talk with Jasmine from Southern Solidarity, a mutual aid collective distributing food and supplies to the unhoused people of New Orleans. The COVID-19 death rate in the crescent city is ...
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Tiger King: Quarantine Royalty
Zhana: Netflixโs Tiger King has become essential quarantine viewing. I was first made aware of the docuseries by my students. Like many schools around the nation, we have transitioned to online learning. For our first zoom ...
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Regina and the Racist
โWhen my son was murdered, I read Job,โ Regina said. Regina was my ride-share driver, fifty-something, and a seat-full of voluptuous curves. She was chatty and she talked with her hands vociferously, which was only a ...
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The African Blood Brotherhood and The Short-Lived Civil War in Tulsa
For several weeks now crews from around the country have been in Tulsa with highly-specialized “ground-penetrating radar” searching for “mass graves” associated with the events of 1921. I and a few others doubted very much if ...
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The Black and White of It
One of my neighbors living three buildings down had his leg amputated several months ago. At first, the doctors thought it was a Brown Recluse spider bite but later figured out it was a circulation problem. ...
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Police Killings, Class, and “Race”
When I was doing research for How the Irish Became White, I looked at the prison population of Philadelphia from 1815 to 1824, and found, to no oneโs surprise, that black people made up a far ...