Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Diamond Reynolds weeps at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in front of the governor’s mansion Thursday in St. Paul, Minn., after recounting the fatal shooting of her boyfriend, Philando Castile, by a police officer. (Eric Miller/Reuters) After a Minnesota police officer fatally shot a black man on Wednesday, gun control advocates weren’t the only ones criticizing…
Noëlle Santos, the Bronx native behind the proposed bookstore and wine bar in the South Bronx.View Full Caption Noëlle Santos Soon, the Bronx will be lit. Noëlle Santos, 29, an HR manager, is planning to open a much needed independent bookstore in the South Bronx. She recently submitted her idea to New York Public Library’s…
The New York Times building, designed to keep reader feedback out.Andrew Burton/Getty Images People should perhaps be cut some slack in their first months on the job, but Liz Spayd, the new public editor of the New York Times, is a long-time journalist with a good deal of experience. After a stint as the…
Justice Police Said They Shot A Man Because He Pointed A Gun At Them. Video Shows He Had His Hands Up. by Aviva Shen Jul 10, 2016 10:33 am CREDIT: Facebook, Alva Braziel Another black man was shot and killed by police in Texas early Saturday morning. Houston Police said Alva Braziel was waving…
A two-day rally for Nintendo has lifted the company’s market value by 718 billion yen, or $7.1 billion. The surge began Friday after the debut of a new mobile game app, Pokemon Go, and accelerated Monday with the shares rising by the daily limit of 25 percent in Tokyo. Watch Next: Nintendo’s Pokemon Game Tops App…
Protests past and present Tess Apslund, 42, stands with a raised fist in front of uniformed neo-Nazis during a Nordic Resistance Movement demonstration in Borlange, Sweden, on Sunday, May 1. Click through the gallery to see memorable images from other protests throughout history. Protests past and present On March 12, 1930, Indian nationalist leader Mahatma…
While thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of major U.S. cities again Saturday night — protesting the recent killings by police of black men Philando Castile in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — a demonstration in St. Paul took a particularly violent turn, with participants hurling Molotov cocktails, fireworks,…
New video footage of a police shooting of an unarmed California teenager shows the final moments of the deadly encounter and, according to the family of the 19-year-old, offers further evidence that this was a case of excessive force and “murder”. The witness video of the 25 June shooting of Dylan Noble by a gas…
In the Internet age, crises have a way of turning completely ordinary, unremarkable tools into tremendously powerful instruments for organizing. Think of the way Hong Kong’s democracy protesters used FireChat to message one another in spite of the area’s overloaded cellular networks, or how Syrian rebels turned to Skype as a way to plan their opposition….
Fox News host Gretchen Carlson may be the highest-profile woman to accuse Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, but she is not the first. In my 2014 biography of the Fox News chief, I included interviews with four women who told me Ailes had used his position of power to make either unwanted sexual advances or…