Let Us Explain: Sportswashing
Sportswashing: the use of an athletic event by an individual or a government, a corporation, or another group to promote or burnish the individual's or group's reputation, especially amid controversy or scandal.
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Southern politics
How Prisons Turn Traumatized Women Into Unpaid Crisis Workers
Lynne does this work without compensation. She receives no sentence reduction, no credits toward parole consideration. The prison extracts her labor and her psychological well-being while offering nothing in return except the brittle satisfaction of knowing she may have kept someone alive for one more shift.
Arts & Soul
To Whom This May Concern: Jill Scott's Sonic Geography of Black Life
Everywhere we have ever made music, which is to say everywhere we have ever hoped to survive, lives inside this record.
Race & Place
Baltimore harm reductionists target paraphernalia criminalization
Harm reductionists from Baltimore and beyond are backing a new iteration of a bill in this year's General Assembly session that has paraphernalia criminalization in its crosshairs — part of a renewed effort to combat the racist War on Drugs in Maryland.
Essays & Letters
Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow
Surviving the Crash
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