新闻1。Dorian “On Sept. 3, 2019, as deadly, destructive Dorian zeroed in on southeastern US coastal states, the four biggest American wireless carriers — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint — all pre-emptively announced plans to help their customers stay connected,” writes Stephen Kimber: Verizon, for example offered unlimited calling, texting and data from Sept. […]
Of The Sorrow Songs
My mother’s stories all had happy endings. “And then I went back years later,” she would conclude triumphantly, “and waved my degree and said who’s the nigger now?” As a young child, this Black version of happily ever after did not strike me as improbable. Stories of a great uncle, studying medicine in Edinburgh while […]
What About The Men? Morning File, Saturday, June 10, 2017
1. Entrepreneurship Men, are you tired of being discriminated against by ladies? Do you worry that men just can’t get a job anymore now that men only make up 190 out of 200 airport drivers? Are you sick of being made to look bad by women talking about being raped by men? Why is no-one […]
Adding Fuel to the Blais: The Meeting on Police Checks
When I went to the community meeting at the North Branch Library about police street checks, I wasn’t expecting much. I assumed Chief Jean-Michel Blais would say he was listening to the community, he understood our concerns, that they were implementing a number of recommendations — the usual PR type responses. Instead, speaking in the heart […]
Magically ridiculous: Morning File, Friday, March 17, 2017
新闻1。有几个人告诉我警察检查that last night’s meeting at the North Memorial Library about police checks was an absolute mess. Here’s Maggie Rahr reporting for The Coast: “Do you deny institutional racism exists!?” shouts a man, rising to his feet, to cheers and rumblings in a crowd of more than […]