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2023 Grammys: I Survived Grammy Week and Lived to Write About It
Grammy Week in Los Angeles might be a lot of things, but one thing it’s absolutely not is for the weak.
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2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced; Darnella Frazier Receives Special Citation [Updated]
The teenager was recognized for bravely recording the murder of George Floyd.
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Your Favorite Podcaster's Favorite Podcast Returns With the New Season of New York Times' Still Processing
It’s time. I know, I know. It’s been four agonizing months since we last heard from New York Times mainstays Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris, but happier days are ahead. Why? Because the rumors are true: They’ll be combining their Wonder Twin powers to resume their duties as the co-hosts of the award-winning podcast, Still…
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The Hate U Give Isn't a Very Good Movie and It's Very Hard to Say That Out Loud
On October 3, Wesley Morris, in a piece for the New York Times Magazine titled “The Morality Wars,” sounded the alarm (in a nutshell) about the difficulty in critiquing black art in today’s political climate in favor of protecting the culture. Basically, he said that because the stakes are higher for black art, it has…
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The Misplaced Hysteria About a ‘Cancel Culture’ That Doesn’t Actually Exist
Similar to its predecessor “PC culture,” which is used to bemoan the mythical tyranny of political correctness, “cancel culture” has become a popular catch-all to describe a social-justice warrior agenda that some believe goes too far when challenging the status quo, saying that it threatens free speech and discourse. When a celebrity says something bigoted…
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Who Are Your Writer Crushes?
Writer Crush: A person whose words you enjoy reading so much that you start to like them. It’s not necessary a romantic/sexual thing — you’re not infatuated and you won’t be private messaging them haikus or anything — but you developed an affinity without ever actually meeting them. And, if you happened to see them…