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Afternoon in a hall. A middle-aged woman, CHIEF, sits at a table on the podium, going through papers. A door opens and two female guards herd five men in handcuffs into the hall and make them stand in a line before the podium, in the order of their appearance. One, GUARD 1, stands by their side; the other, GUARD 2, by the door.

a new Oscar-nominated documentary from India

I got a bellyful of Batman movie, and popcorn, and a large soda!

Prof. Christina Greer explains what makes Eric Adams like “a really good point guard” — and the Nets could use one for home games, by the way — and Amir Khafagy breaks down his reporting for Documented on how the city has let down the Twin Parks fire survivors now that they’re no longer front-page news.

An appreciation for the unappreciated.

We are proud to launch a crowdfunder today for Brick House member OlongoAfrica‘s new book imprint, which will debut with the long-out-of-print travel memoir by Mashood Ọlábísí Àjàlá, An African Abroad. We’re kicking off the crowdfunder at MozFest, an online gathering for activists, educators, technologists, students, artists, and journalists who want a more humane digital […]

FOR A WEEK she stood inside a room at the Taichung train station. There was something quietly defiant about her stance, left foot crossed over her right, the weight of her body slightly on the back foot, as if she were just about to take a small step forward.

the van Gogh exhibit at the old Amoeba building in Hollywood

I was reading a book titled All Good Things, It was a lighthearted read and I found something rather unexpected in it; I found myself.

Super-reporter Greg B. Smith breaks down why Eric Adams’ promise to remove the homeless from the trains “right away” has been going nowhere fast.

We can’t just observe a bloody theater online.

Arrested yet again, in press freedom crackdown in Kashmir