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Do the Right Thing Turns 25, and BAM Hosts the Block Party
In New York City meteorology there is hot, desperately hot, and Do the Right Thing hot, the temperature at which long-simmering tensions threaten to boil over into madness. Twenty-five years after Spike Lee’s trenchant depiction of race relations on a sweltering Bed-Stuy block gave us new language to describe an old kind of weather, the […]
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Twenty NYC Middle Schools’ Days To Be Extended, Kids Will Probably Not Be Happy
Our collective inner child is kicking and screaming over this story. But our collective adult self is affirmatively nodding in agreement that maybe this will actually help students. Growing up sucks. Yesterday, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Education Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott announced a plan to tack on two and a half hours to […]
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“Edward Is Brown Like Roast Turkey”: Studies in Crap Remembers Why We Needed Hip-Hop
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. “Black people are different colors,” Vivian Church points out on page four of Colors Around Me, her marvelously blunt children’s book. Then, […]