Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo Credit Oliver Munday LIKE many others, I was stunned by the story of the Minnesota dentist who hunted and killed a 13-year-old lion, Cecil, in Zimbabwe. It was a brutal, senseless thing. The story has gone viral because it offers a strange alchemy of arrogant privilege, an animal’s being lured out of safety and…
Wilson has been living for several months on a nondescript street on the outskirts of St. Louis. He hasn’t read the Justice Department’s report on systemic racism in Ferguson. span id=”incorrect”>Wilson hasn’t read the Justice Department’s report on systemic racism in Ferguson. “I’m not going to keep living in the past,” he said. Credit Photograph…
Men: What are they thinking? And where do they get off? More specifically, why do they always think you like them or want them when you don’t? And conversely, why don’t they know when you actually do like them, either? Join me as we keep chipping away at this riddle of the ages. If you’re…
Photo Celebrities caught in serious repose include, from left, Kristen Stewart, January Jones and Victoria Beckham. Credit From left, Ian Langsdon/European Pressphoto Agency, Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images for the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters I didn’t think much about it at the time: I was appearing in a short television segment and had quickly…
Even when a dentist kills an adored lion, and everyone is furious, there’s loftier righteousness to be had. RetroRocket / 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 Now > Now is the point…
I spent a couple hours writing this as part of an application for cross cultural trainer which I didn’t end up getting but I figured I might as well use it as a blog post anyways. We were asked to write a lesson plan that you might give trainees and I wrote mine about dealing…
For many African Americans, tuning into the nightly news and skimming through social media timelines has become an exercise in maintaining psychological well-being. The barrage of videos in which police officers attack and kill black people, along with ongoing discussions about race-based violence, can elicit fears that they, too, may succumb to an officer’s bullet….
On Monday, police in Mount Vernon, New York, found Raynetta Turner dead in her holding cell. According to Mayor Ernest Davis, Turner, who was 44, had been arrested for shoplifting on Saturday. Though the cause of her death is still being investigated, Davis has confirmed that Turner reported various medical issues when she was arrested,…
D.C. Council member LaRuby May (E-Ward 8). (J. Lawler Duggan/For The Washington Post) At a recent “safe communities” meeting in Southeast Washington, where some of the District’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods are located, D.C. Council member LaRuby May (D-Ward 8) offered a sobering take on her short time representing that part of the city. “I’ve been…
Homogeneity is a big problem in an industry whose ambition is to serve and inform an increasingly diverse public. Mark Makela / Reuters 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 Now > Landing an…