View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jason A. F (@shots_fired_snap) on Jul 27, 2020 at 10:24pm PDT So much winning. The Ottoman Empire was once known as the sick man of Europe. In that same vein,…
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“Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.” John Lewis John Lewis made…
Man, oh man, what a thought-provoking read. Please click below for a simply outstanding long read on the perils and possible positive outcomes that can come from a plague by the always erudite Andrew Sullivan. The essay takes a…
It is a must that you check out David Fear’s awesome interview with Uptown superhero Lin-Manuel Miranda for Rolling Stone. The piece delves into Hamilton, Freestyle Love Supreme, In the Heights and so much more. Check it out below.…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dan Davenport (@dandavenportnyc) on Jul 8, 2020 at 7:20am PDT Isabel Wilkerson is a stone-cold, intellectual powerhouse. Her magnum opus, The Warmth of Other Suns, is a straight up tour…
The debt owed has come due. Nikole Hannah-Jones of the NY Times penned a sweeping piece on the need to go beyond slogans and to the thorny topic of reparations. The piece puts into proper perspective the absolute need…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kadir Nelson (@kadirnelson) on Jun 16, 2020 at 5:49am PDT Jamil Smith penned a powerful must-read in Rolling Stone on the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement and how…
Listen up folks, you absolutely need to read Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop by a former California police officer. Even with all videos that we have seen recently about abhorrent police behavior, this article is an eye-opener. Without…
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…
Ezra Klein penned a superb piece in Vox that perfectly and succinctly sums up our predicament. It’s not just that we are living through a pandemic but that we are living through a pandemic with Trump as President. Every…