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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces (NYT gift link)
John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.
Robbi Mecus, Who Fostered L.G.B.T.Q. Climbing Community, Dies at 52
A New York State forest ranger who worked in the Adirondacks, she died after falling about 1,000 feet from a peak at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. (SLNYT gift link)
Tokyo’s Public Toilets Will Leave New Yorkers Sobbing
Shani Mott, Black Studies Scholar, Dies at 47
"we love an activist until they need something"
The Curmudgeon of Rivington Street
As his apartment on the Lower East Side crumbled, a former Club Kid resented the moneyed millennials who filled his building. Then he let them in on a secret that transformed their lives. (NYTimes gift link)
The Lost Story of New York’s Most Powerful Black Woman
"Vindication!"
"movement is what I wanted to capture on canvas."
The Problem With The Boxcar Children Is...
Physicists Move One Step Closer to a Theoretical Showdown
The deviance of a tiny particle called the muon might prove that one of the most well-tested theories in physics is incomplete. (NYT gift link)
The Cotillion
I wrapped my pink around me like a blanket
How my father and I drew a new life
Seeing Beyond the Beauty of Vermeer
The violence of his era can be found in his serene masterpieces — if you know where to look. (NYT, ungated)
Generation Connie
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Why Poverty Persists in America
"I am NOT Montel Williams!"
And the words of love I speak to you will echo in my mind
On the anniversary of Stevie Wonder's landmark 1972 album Talking Book, musicians who made it and artists who cherish it share their stories. An interactive oral history.
The Nap Bishop Is Spreading the Good Word: Rest
She was killed by the police. Why are her bones in a museum?
Katricia Dotson’s remains were studied, disputed, displayed and litigated. Lost in the controversy was the life of an American girl and her family.
CN: state murder of children and others, subsequent shocking violations of human decency
Lamont Dozier, 1941-2022
Happy Fortunate People
"It didn’t occur to Hamish until then that you could end up in medical school against your will. For Hamish, getting into medical school was like releasing a breath he’d been holding his entire life. But once there, he found himself surrounded by people for whom it represented nothing more remarkable than the result of mild exertion; they accepted it as a blasé part of their destiny. It was like finding out they were hyperflexible or had the genes that made them able to discern the stink of their piss after eating asparagus. Maybe that’s the way it worked for some people. Maybe for them, there was an order to life, a logic that could be easily traversed, whereas for Hamish, life was like leaping from ice floe to ice floe, drifting for weeks or months or years with no land in sight."
Peter Brook, 1925-2022
“He doesn’t need to win the dog show to feel special."
"A recent visit to rural Pennsylvania found GCHG CH Pequest Wasabi, as he is officially known (the letters represent his winning credentials), chilling at home, already semiretired at the age of 4. Bestirring himself to say hello, he did not exactly run, but moved with all deliberate speed, his luxuriant locks wafting like wheat blowing in a breeze."
Manhattan’s Chinese Street Signs Are Disappearing
The arrival, expansion and disappearance of the bilingual street signs have traced the ebb and flow of Chinese immigration in New York City’s oldest Chinatown. A dive into history, both NYC and Chinese, linguistics, and city administration.
The Radical Experiment Saving the Lives of Drug Users
The Dinner Party That’s Nourished a Trans Community for Decades
CDI was born in the late 1980s when a group of male crossdressers, tired of being harassed in public, placed an ad in the back of The Village Voice directing other male crossdressers to meet in hotel suites around the city where they could lift gender boundaries and safely dress femme. Eventually, the club grew and moved its meetings to a member’s apartment next to Port Authority where they answered questions and gave advice on hotlines connected to the ads. They moved to their current Hell’s Kitchen clubhouse six years ago.
Falling through the cracks of the American Dream
Low-wage workers in Chinese immigrant communities often lack access to the social safety nets intended to help people living in poverty — in part because of “model minority” stereotypes. Since the pandemic began, it's had disastrous consequences in New York City.
When Dasani left home
Many of you may remember the story of Dasani, the homeless girl in rapidly gentrifying Fort Greene whose experiences were chronicled in a NYT article several years ago. This article follows up on her experiences since, as she attends a boarding school for lower-income students.
We lost two great actors today
These Are the Workers Who Kept New York Alive in Its Darkest Months
“It’s insulting because it’s not meeting the standard.”
Stacey Park Milbern, Disability Activist, Dies at 33
Milbern, a Korean-American who identified as queer, was a well-known advocate and organizer for disability justice and in particular for insisting on the importance of decentering whiteness and heterocisnormativity within the movement. In her last few months, she worked on organizing mutual aid and support for the homeless in the face of the coronavirus, as well as serving as impact producer for the recent Netflix documentary Crip Camp.
"Oftentimes, disabled people have the solutions that society needs,” Ms. Milbern told the San Francisco public radio station KQED.
Stacey Milbern, a Warrior for Disability Justice, Dies at 33
Frances Goldin: "Capitalism...a system where you can never have enough"
Frances Goldin, longtime East Village/Lower East Side housing activist who ultimately out-persevered even the Speaker of the New York State Assembly, died this weekend at age 95. "[W]hile she was most visible as a protester, provocateur and spokeswoman for various lost causes, her stubbornness, forbearance and ultimately her backstage bargaining produced substantive victories."
Where trouble melts like lemon-drops
Google Doodle honoring the birthday of Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, who would be celebrating his sixty-first birthday today.
In addition to his ukelele music, Kamakawiwoʻole was known for his activism for Hawai'an independence.
A very French scandal
"I'm fifty-six years old. I can't blame anybody for what I do."
Who can adopt a Native American child?
Rembrandt in the Blood
Dogs of New York
all there is, seen and unseen
when dogweight fades away
“A rag, a bone, and a hank of hair” is the best description of the dog Murphy I ever came across
(Content: impending dog death [old age-related illness].)
"What are these women going to look like?"
Kwame Brathwaite: Celebrity and the Everyday is an exhibit chronicling the work of Brathwaite, photographer of the "Black is Beautiful" aesthetic movement, which organized fashion shows in the early 60s of black women in natural hairstyles.
"'Accepting charity is an ugly business'"
"My return to the refugee camps, 30 years on": Dina Nayeri was eight when she and her family fled Iran. Are today’s refugees treated with more dignity? (SLGuardian)
He says a rhyme/ But, see, compared to me it's weak compared to mine
Lyrical Ladies, Writing Women, and the Legend of Lauryn Hill:
Joan Morgan’s “She Begat This” looks back at how Lauryn Hill crashed through hip-hop’s glass ceiling, while our critic looks at how the author and a cadre of black women writers did the same for hip-hop music journalism.
Who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?
4,000-year-old stew
Teams from Yale, Harvard, and elsewhere recently met up to try recipes recorded on ancient Babylonian tablets, possibly the oldest surviving recipes in the world.
“Having an understanding of what the food is supposed to feel and taste like is very important,” says Lassen. “We didn’t know what we were looking for. When we were recreating one of the recipes I kept thinking they were doing this wrong, ‘this is not how I would make this.’ And then when it had boiled for a while it suddenly transformed itself into something delicious.”
A green and gold paradise
A Time of Plenty: Celebrating Nowruz in America
Nowruz is the Iranian/Persian New Year, occurring at the time of the spring equinox (this year, it was today, March 20th). A short essay about want and abundance amongst exiles.
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