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UC Must-Reads: A story of slavery — and space

Our UC Must-Read selection of the week is equal parts cosmos and caste. It is a story of slavery and space. Shout out to The Washington Post for a simply stellar interactive piece that delves into the sordid history…

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UC Must-Reads: A split-screen pandemic

Journalist, broadcaster and author, Farai Chideya penned a power piece in the Washington Post that delves on how the pandemic has exposed the festering inequality that is so pronounced in our beloved New York City. This sentence from the…

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UC Must-Reads: 70 days of denial, delays and dysfunction

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Uptown Collective (@uptowncollectiv) on Feb 25, 2018 at 7:30am PST The Washington Post is coming with receipts. The exhaustive investigative report by Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima and Greg…

UC Must-Reads: How Latinos saved American cities

Our UC Must-Read goes to A. K. Sandoval-Strausz for an essay in the Washington Post entitled How Latinos saved American cities. The pieces make a compelling case for the heavy lifting Latinos did in keeping many of America’s urban…