Tens of millions of Americans, most of them men, tune in to sports talk radio. Is sports talk a haven for old-school guy talk, including misogyny and gay-bashing? For the final episode in our series…
Two families, both making big investments of time and money to involve their kids in sports. But the investments they’re able to make are very different. In Part 5 of “Contested,” our series on sports,…
Tal Ben-Artzi didn’t worry about being an out bisexual athlete at Penn State. Maybe she would have if she’d known the school’s history. How much have times changed? In Part 4 of “Contested,” our series…
Two small towns, one in Idaho, the other in Upstate New York, try to decide whether to change the nickname of their high school sports teams: The Redskins. Photo: Emblem in the main foyer at…
More from suburban St. Louis, post-Ferguson, on the popular notion that sports unites communities. Can the camaraderie of a team sport make race and class status “disappear” for the kids involved or their parents? Scene…
Can a winning baseball team bring St. Louis together post-Ferguson? John Biewen investigates in the inaugural episode of Scene On Radio, a new podcast of audio stories from the Center for Documentary Studies…
I may have also written a tiny introduction. But like that is literally the least interesting thing in this AMAZING book! https://twitter.com/catchatweetdown/status/1451346664040566786
People! When I tell you this book is the one, what I'm saying is this👋🏿is👋🏿 the👋🏿one.
@TheMoth was one of the first orgs to believe in my potential as a storyteller and help me hone my craft.
I'm reading it like "how did y'all wait this long? I needed this like 10 years ago! https://twitter.com/TheMoth/status/1451201623347249160
You can hear the dew falling
and the hushed town breathing
Just listen. Hush. Listen with us for a little while.
It is @MichaelSheen performing the Welsh poetry of Dylan Thomas in #UnderMilkWood.
Woke lefty cancel culture, though!
Are folks realizing how insane this is? One, that teaching an academic theory is prohibited by law? Two, that what’s really outlawed is teaching about race, racism and accurate history? Three, that educators are losing their jobs over this? https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1451159545523363848
In S4 we talked about the framers designing the Senate to stop the "people's house" from passing stuff that helps the working-class majority and threatens elite control. What's McConnell referencing here? A bill protecting voting rights for all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/us/politics/voting-rights-filibuster-democrats.html?smid=tw-share
