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Change Can’t Be Choreographed: The Messy Racial Politics of the Super Bowl Halftime Show
We shouldn’t just relish this Halftime Show as an entertaining concert and ignore its troubling politics, because that’s what the NFL wants. The confused politics fade into the background, and viewers are left with fond memories of a celebratory performance of hip-hop.
Infrastructure and How We Create It: The U.S. and Mexico’s Push to Build
A closer look at infrastructure policies shows that Mexico’s government takes an approach of federal directives at the cost of transparency or regulation, while the U.S. chooses process over progress.
The Challenges to Abortion Access on College Campuses
Though college students have always been at a greater disadvantage in terms of abortion access, recent abortion bans have heightened existing worries about college students’ access to abortion.
“You Must Construct New Stories”: A Conversation with Black Disability Rights Advocate Haben Girma
eafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, Haben Girma has spent her life advocating for disability justice and the importance of inclusion as a human rights lawyer. Girma is also a recipient of the Helen Keller Achievement Award and a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2016.
Flag on the Play: How Anti-Trans Athlete Bills Impact Trans and Nonbinary Youth Off the Field
“It infiltrates kids’ minds in a way that they have to carry around this really deep emotional weight,” said Gonzales. “They know that the people that have the power to do good are instead using the most vulnerable population to amplify their own political platform.”
The Solitary Thousands: Locked Away in Connecticut’s Solitary Confinement Units
A nineteen-year-old Michael Braham was dressed in only his boxers, a t-shirt, and socks when guards came to his cell after breakfast and took him to the solitary confinement unit of Corrigan Correctional Institution in Uncasville, CT.
History’s Fallout: The Enola Gay Exhibit and Curating America’s Past
On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, a B-29 U.S. Air Force military plane, dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. As the skies raged, silhouettes of men, women, and children were plastered onto building bricks. The casualties were immense: around 70,000 Japanese citizens perished. Three days later, Bockscar, another U.S. Air Force B-29 airplane, dropped the second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing 40,000 Japanese citizens.
The Last Frontier: Keeping the presses hot in Southeast Alaska
In the world of Southeast Alaskan journalism, all roads seem to lead to Larry Persily, whose story starts — serendipitously enough — with a classified ad.