Campus Progress is hiring staff writers for September-December, and applications are due next Tuesday, July 20. Writers can be based anywhere (one of our writers is currently in China), they don’t have to be current college students, and best of all, they’ll get some great clips to take with them after their time is up! Read More
Consider it a jumpstart on Tuesday. No time for small talk or lame jokes. Just links: Six months into recovery efforts, Haiti is still a mess. BBC spotlights the plight of orphaned children. Racewire reminds us that Haitian women have been victims of a “second wave of disaster” that includes “poverty, sexual violence and political Read More
(x-posted from TAPPED) The New York Times has a great story about police officers using the stop, question, and frisk tactic in Brownsville, Brooklyn — one of the many areas designated an “impact zone” under commissioner Ray Kelly. Those zones are flooded with police officers, often new recruits, who reinforce small quality-of-life crimes like having Read More
Endless sun. Beautiful, scantily-clad women. Joe’s Stone Crab. David Caruso. If Miami doesn’t have it all, then it’s probably not possible to survive the city that does. Orson Swindle summed it up so well: “Why is this beautiful place also repulsive? Because it’s Miami, that’s why, which somehow always manages to show up to dinner Read More
ColorLines has been doing a fantastic job covering the trial of Johannes Mehserle, the cop who shot and killed Oscar Grant on a subway platform. Kai Wright flags a comment from the blog on the verdict. As a former defense attorney, I respect the jury system–it’s better than any alternatives. But jury trials can and Read More
For the past couple of days and probably through the next couple of years, disparaging LeBron James has become something of a national pastime. If James built up any goodwill before this free-agency frenzy, he certainly seems to have squandered it now. A sampling of the World Wide Venom: Straight Bangin‘: “LeBron has committed a Read More
Apparently this cat is running to be head of Kids, Incorporated or some shit.
I spent most of yesterday off the grid, running around the Omni Shoreham Hotel in DC helping my colleagues pull off an amazing conference for Campus Progress. Van Jones was one of the keynotes (aside: who knew dude was so goofy? I didn’t.) and much of the coverage of the conference has focused on Jones’ Read More
(Spoilers.) After much prodding from G.D., I finally watched Avatar: The Last Airbender well before the disappointing reviews of the film based on the Nickelodeon series came out. If I hadn’t known what a phenomenally good cartoon it was from the start, I definitely would have figured it out by Chapter 12 of the first Read More
Lenny Kravitz was walking down the street in the N.O. when he heard a church choir playing his song. So he decided to join them.
