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Alice Ollstein Nov 23, 2015 9:26pm CREDIT: AP Photo/Eric Schultz Mercutio Southall is removed by security as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in Birmingham, Alabama. When activist Mercutio Southall Jr. was curled up on the ground getting kicked, punched, and choked by Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Birmingham,…
This essay, which is featured in our forthcoming Winter issue, was originally given as a lecture during the 2015 Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop. It was met with enthusiastic applause. Some Exposition fff Until recently I was a professor at a private liberal arts university in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, a little town located at the exact point…
Meet Jackie Biskupski, the openly gay mayor of Salt Lake City who just won the election campaigning on municipal issues, of all things. This is big news—because Biskupski is a lesbian—in Utah—no joke! Utah, the state with all the Mormons. Where that judge who didn’t like lesbians lives. http://gawker.com/utah-family-co… And sure, none of that really…
Great news! Nobody was murdered when a big crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters got shot at by three white guys in Minneapolis last night. Five people were injured, with one having surgery on his stomach overnight, but nobody died. And that’s it for good news, all, because this story is rage. First up: Above…
Five people were shot at a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis late Monday night. The Associated Press spoke with Minneapolis police who confirmed the shootings. Police spokesman John Elder told AP all five have injuries that are not life-threatening. The local newspaper The Star Tribune reported that the five people shot were protesters. Black…
early 10,000 people are petitioning moviegoers across the country to boycott Paramount Pictures’s upcoming Zoolander sequel on the grounds that the movie is transphobic and to be honest…they’re probably right. Last week, the first trailer for Zoolander 2 finally dropped and we got a look at what to expect from Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson’s…
During Iraq’s long summer of 2004, one of the many prisoners who arrived at the American-run facility at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq was a young jihadist who fought under the name Abu Ahmed. Though he’d feared prison, Abu Ahmed found, to his surprise, a kind of jihadist salon, as extremist fighters locked up together…
In 2001, two unlikely friends created a music festival in Mali that drew the likes of Bono and Robert Plant. Then radical Islam tore them apart. When Mohamed Aly Ansar studied international law at the University of Bamako, in the capital of Mali, he spent his days thinking about how to bring development to his…
Only NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal spoke with two Philadelphia men who were delayed from boarding a flight home from Chicago after they say another passenger complained about them speaking Arabic. (Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2015) A Philadelphia pizza shop owner and his friend had to call 911 in Chicago’s Midway airport Wednesday night in order to…
James Bradfield worked the graveyard shift at a factory that built airplane parts in Jackson, Mississippi. It was a new job and he didn’t like the hours. He’d previously worked for a company that made radiators, but the company went out of business and Bradfield had to take the next job he could find. And…