What the WHAT? The FBI says a 16-year-old boy stowed away in the wheel well of a flight from California to Hawaii, and survived. The boy is expected to fully recover.” According to The Maui News, the unidentified teen survived the trip “halfway across the Pacific Ocean unharmed despite frigid temperatures at 38,000 feet and […]
Danielle Henderson
Posted inBooks
Between The Lines: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith Spread The Word
Two of my favorite authors, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith, sat down at the Schomburg Center in Harlem earlier this week to talk about the construction of blackness as an American phenomenon, radical love, and a bunch of other important questions that came about as a result of reading Adichie’s latest novel, Americanah. It’s […]
Posted inComedy
Carl Kasell Is Retiring
You might as well pour poison in your ears and call it a day. My favorite velvet-voiced newsman is leaving the biz: Carl Kasell, the famed voice of NPR News for three decades turned comedy star of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, has announced he’s stepping down this spring after a five-decade career in broadcasting. […]
Posted inRace
Dangerous Black Kids
If you’re as disgusted as I am that Florida shooter Michael Dunn wasn’t convicted for the murder of Jordan Davis, I urge you to look at the Twitter hashtag #dangerousblackkids, a Twitter meme that is a love letter to black children who grow up in a system where they are dehumanized and targeted for simply […]
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Utah Might End Homelessness by 2015
Well this is a unique approach to homelessness—giving people homes: In 2005, Utah figured out that the annual cost of E.R. visits and jail stays for homeless people was about $16,670 per person, compared to $11,000 to provide each homeless person with an apartment and a social worker. So, the state began giving away apartments, […]