Congrats—you did it! In spite of some racially insensitive comments and “Can I touch your hair?” queries during February, you survived another tumultuous year as a Privileged American Man (I know, I know—I’m surprised, too). Sure, you lost a few friends and family members along the way, but such is life in a…
In the ten months since I emailed Nick Denton and other top executives about the responsibility and commitment Gawker Media had to diversity hiring and sustainability, the company has grown tremendously—building video and social strategy teams, as well as hiring a number of qualified candidates for various positions…
Liverpool recently introduced fast-walking pedestrian lanes in its city centre, an action supported by 69 percent of 16 to 24-year-old residents, research found. “But life is about the path, not the destination,” you say. Incorrect, sir. Now get out of my way, I’m late for an appointment.
“This nowhere,” begins Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts in her 2011 chronicle Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, “between dream and reality, between what one sees and what one imagines, between what is happening and your attempt to describe it, is the territory we wander while awake.”
Washington, DC— “I have some hard truths to say,” Louis Farrakhan, the 82-year-old leader of the Nation of Islam, boomed. It was a cool October afternoon and he stood on the steps of the Capitol Building; an ocean of black and brown faces moved before him.
On Tuesday, Marlon James became the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker Prize in the award’s 47-year history for A Brief History of Seven Killings, an “expansive and near-mythic survey of his homeland.” Revisit our interview with the author here.
Belarussian journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich became the 14th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. A synthesis of reportage and literature, her work has centered on the Soviet Union through the lens of everyday citizens. “She’s devised a new kind of literary genre,” the Swedish Academy said.
