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VICE: Here’s Another Story of Police Brutality in Minneapolis Long Before George Floyd
VICE: Migrant Workers are Bearing the Brunt of New Zealand’s Hardline Coronavirus Approach
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VICE: 10 Questions for a Guy Who Sells Baby Furniture to Celebrities
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QUARTZ: Women in America’s largest transit system are underground—and under attack
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BKLYNER: Corner Eyesore Racks up Nearly $100,000 in Fines and Brings Rats to Newkirk Plaza
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NYC News Service: Going with the Flow: How Menstruators Marathon
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Brooklyn’s Diwali Celebration Shines Light on Family Separation at the Southern Border
Words and photographs by Katie Herchenroeder Tea lights illuminated Brooklyn Borough Hall Tuesday night as interfaith community members celebrated Diwali, a festival of lights observed by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and some Buddhists. They were praying for something specific this year: an end to family separation at the Southern border. Treats could be found around the …
“ZITS! SHTA! TSURIK!” Dog Owners Direct Their Pups at “Yiddish for Dogs” in Central Park
Words and photographs by Katie Herchenroeder Dog owner Diane Bushwick adjusted her Hungarian Pumi’s yamaka while commanding him to sit in Yiddish. “ZITS!” she instructed her dog, Hudson, in a small Central Park enclave near 67th Street and 5th Avenue on Sunday morning. "Zits!" means "Sit!" Ann Toback and her dog Jesse in Central Park on …
In Memory of Thea Hunter: Beloved New Yorker, Scholar, and Adjunct
“To be a perennial adjunct professor is to hear the constant tone of higher education’s death knell. The story is well known—the long hours, the heavy workload, the insufficient pay—as academia relies on adjunct professors, non-tenured faculty members, who are often paid pennies on the dollar to do the same work required of their tenured colleagues,” Adam Harris writes in The Atlantic, eulogizing Thea Hunter. [continue reading]
Remembering New Zealand: How a shooting 9,109 miles away hit home for CCNY students
It is often in the most persecuted groups that one finds fortitude in identity, empathy, and wisdom. As four Muslim women sat across from each other, remembering the lives and legacies of their 50 brothers and sisters killed in New Zealand, they explored identity, embodied empathy, and spoke wisdom. [continue reading]
