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The economy is a lot worse than a glance at the unemployment rate suggests.
So does that mean that only a little over half of the US population has a job?
My daughter is kind and compassionate, but she will not smile unless either she is genuinely glad to see you or you’re telling her a joke that has a scatological punch line.
My grandparents would always say to me: Stay Sweet. And while that sweetness has gotten me some things, I’m not sure they’re really the things I needed.
Sometimes Black folks are so hard on Black folks. To much attention and fanfare, actor Romany Malco published an article last week in Huff Post outlining his take on the Trayvon Martin case.
Way back in the day when Twitter was a bootleg reindeer name, David Rozier invented farting during Mass.
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The Art of Criticism in the Age of Interactive Technology: Critics, Participatory Culture, and the Avant-Garde
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Inhabitants of the City That Never Sleeps may find themselves spending quite a few more evenings tossing and turning after reading a new report detailing the grim realities of soaring rents in a city plagued by income inequality.
“This sustained growth appears impervious to reality. For example, using data gathered by the the U.S. Census Bureau, The New Yorker calculated that the income gap in Manhattan is comparable to that of countries like Sierra Leone and Namibia.”
Namibia!
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Voting concluded Wednesday in most of Zimbabwe’s polling stations in elections in which Robert Mugabe, faced one of the biggest challenges to his 33-year grip on power.
The OWN life coach says instead of chasing after no-good men, we should be forming bonds with our sisters. Do you agree?
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What would happen if New York State repealed its rent-regulation laws?
“A lesser-known but important issue is that rent-controlled and rent-stabilized tenants can’t be evicted without a legal reason, while unregulated tenants have no right to renew their leases. How stable would the city’s neighborhoods be if rising rents forced residents to move every year or two? How would people raise children? How would they maintain the social relationships that sustain communities?”
That’s obviously no longer a NYC priority for working class and below.
An encore of James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (original broadcast August 14, 1989) is scheduled for Friday, August 23 at 9pm on PBS in honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington (8/28/1963).
I love this thing. I watch it for inspiration when I’m feeling down.
Working Class Sha(wo)man 