Tressie McMillan Cottom
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
I just published What’s The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote?
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Everyone Is Gay on TikTok
Straight young men on the app are posting suggestive videos with their buddies. It’s not just about the views.
I Could Never Get Grandma’s Thanksgiving Dressing Quite Right—Until She Was Gone
Making it was a true comedy of errors, but somehow it tasted just like hers.
Defining the gig economy: platform capitalism and the reinvention of precarious work | Emerald Insight
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Defining the gig economy: platform capitalism and the reinvention of precarious work | Emerald Insight
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Upcoming Events
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Here are the best reviewed books of the week.
Don DeLillo’s The Silence, Aoko Matsuda’s Where the Wild Ladies Are, Les Payne’s The Dead Are Rising: The Life of Malcolm X, and Heather Clark’s Red Comet: The Short and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath…
Racial Capitalism & Prison Abolition Zine
This zine is written and illustrated to make accessible the theories of Black Marxist and prison abolitionist scholars including Cedric Robinson, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mariame Kaba, Angela Davis and others. We invite you to share...
Georgia teen apologizes for plot to kill black churchgoers and is sentenced to time in juvenile detention
A 17-year-old Georgia girl accused of plotting to attack a predominantly Black church in 2019, apologized in court on Thursday before being sentenced to four years in a juvenile facility
Amid Giuliani controversy, Borat is hosting a live watch party. What could go wrong?
"Please you will meet me on the internet!" reads the invite for Sacha Baron Cohen's live watch party tonight for his new "Borat" sequel.
A writer infiltrates the world of white nationalism in ‘Culture Warlords’ - The Boston Globe
Researching her book left Talia Lavin more than troubled; it rendered her “incandescent with the kind of rage that doesn’t just last an evening.”
Pack the Court, Save the Vote
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to entrench minoritarian rule without the consent of the electorate.
The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Departure from Fox
A former assistant at the network accused Guilfoyle, who is now one of the Trump campaign’s top fund-raising officials, of sexual harassment—and of attempting to buy her silence.
Fort Hope: Dialer Phone Bank · All In for SC 2020 Coordinated Campaign
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when you realize you're on the wrong side
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Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ Editor Starts Her Own Publishing Firm
Molly Stern, the former publisher of Crown, is starting Zando, an independent publishing company with an unusual marketing strategy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
If I am reading this right, it’s a book influencer model. (Well Read Black Girl will be an imprint one day, btw. I called it long ago.)
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Why Police Reform Is Actually a Bailout for Cops
Decades of reform have built an agile, deadly force that pushes millions of people into the largest carceral system in the world
Phil Collins’s Ex-Wife Is Allegedly Staging an Armed Occupation of His Home
After dumping the singer via text, no less.