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Karel Capek’s wonderful War With the Newts.
Damon Knight • In Search of Wonder
We need to rise from our seats and tell our local officials: This community’s long-standing tradition of segregation stops with me. I refuse to deny other children opportunities my children enjoy by living here. Build it.
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Miami’s proximity to Cuba made it an attractive tourist destination for elite European-descended Cubans who also sent their children to be educated in the United States. And over the course of the twentieth century, Overtown’s demographics expanded to include the descendants of freedpeople from Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, and Haiti. In the late ni
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Most nuisance citations were addressed to properties on the North Side. In white neighborhoods, only 1 in 41 properties that could have received a nuisance citation actually did receive one. In black neighborhoods, 1 in 16 eligible properties received a citation. A woman reporting domestic violence was far more likely to land her landlord a nuisanc
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City




The Nickel Boys: the new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad
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