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My Life with John Prine

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On April 8, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKPDFQRmG_M Two years ago this weekend, I was supposed to be at a conference in Sacramento. Then a few weeks before that trip was scheduled to happen, a New Yorker friend of mine texted me to say that the woman he was seeing had a...
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We live in a deeply and fundamentally racist nation. This is in evidence across a wide range of measures of inequality, from wealth to homeownership, incarceration to life expectancy. This has also long been true in the field of medicine, which has a variety of...
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Hero Vultures

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On January 12, 2020
Heroic vultures pissing, shitting, and puking on a Border Patrol tower so much that it disrupts its functionality is an early front-runner for my absolute favorite news item of the year: A US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) radio tower near the Texas-Mexico border has become home...
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The Murder of Fred Hampton

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On December 4, 2019
Fifty years ago today, the Chicago Police Department, the Cook County State's Attorney, and the FBI assassinated Illinois Black Panther Party Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton. In a predawn raid around 4:30 AM on December 4, 1969, police officers attached to the State's Attorney's office, working...

Say Her Name

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On October 28, 2019

This is an important piece from the imminent Kimberlé Crenshaw, on the need for intersectional analyses of the plague of police violence. If we want to get a broader sense.

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