Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Where are all the ladies? (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate) The woman on America’s silver screen is young. She is white. She is straight. And she is vastly outnumbered by men. From 2007 to 2014, women played a mere 30.2 percent of all speaking or named characters in the 700 biggest box office hits, according to a…
######## BEGIN VOLUME VIDEO ######## ######## END VOLUME VIDEO ######## Donald Trump is running for president. But his performance in last night’s debate shows that he clearly hasn’t forgotten his other job as America’s imaginary boss, teaching the nation how to get ahead in the workplace. When Fox News’s Megyn Kelly asked Trump a question about…
Business The Makeup Tax Women who wear makeup earn more and are treated better. This has steep costs, in both money and time. Inna Harlamoff / Shutterstock We noticed that you have an AD BLOCKER ENABLED Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe…
AD ads_sharebox_260x60 FreeHowardMorgan.com Entry Text A 61-year-old Chicago man who was shot 28 times by Chicago police officers in 2005 — and lived to tell his side of the story — was sentenced early Thursday afternoon to serve 40 years in prison, essentially a life sentence. Howard Morgan, himself a former Chicago police officer, was…
Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me. So sorry about Cecil. Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe? Cecil who? I wondered. When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by…
It all started when a “self-taught engineer, extreme introvert, science-nerd, anime-lover, college dropout” wrote that she was tired of stereotypes. Isis Wenger, a 22-year-old platform engineer in San Francisco, got talked into being one of a handful of colleagues featured in a hastily organized recruiting campaign for her company OneLogin, she wrote on Medium. The…
Credit: Jake Reeves/The Huffington Post FERGUSON, Mo. — Nearly a half-century ago, a University of Missouri law professor named T.E. Lauer issued a warning. Missouri’s network of municipal courts, he wrote, were “a modern anomaly” generally “overlooked or ignored as the misshapen stepchildren of our judicial system.” It was “disgraceful,” he argued, that poor people…
Photo The burial service for Sandra Bland on Saturday in Lisle, Ill. Credit Joshua Lott for The New York Times LISLE, Ill. — Funerals are often predictably somber — a cloistering and culminating of grief and pain. Not Sandra Bland’s funeral. (Everyone called her Sandy, by the way.) Sandy’s was simultaneously celebratory and defiant. Bland…
Young men today have aspirations of being hands-on fathers as well as breadwinners — supportive husbands who also do dishes. But as they enter that more responsibility-filled stage of life, something changes: Their roles often become much more traditional. Millennial men — ages 18 to early 30s — have much more egalitarian attitudes about family,…
Once again, cultural appropriation is igniting a flurry of controversy — and for the umpteenth time, the case relates to black women’s hair. Allure magazine finds itself in the middle of a stormy response to a hair tutorial published in its August 2015 issue titled, “You (Yes, You) Can Have An Afro.*” The asterisk reads: “even if…