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| By Suzette Hackney |
| Ten years. |
| Ten excruciating years of grief and agony; anger and denial; frustration and depression. |
| Ten years of hollow holidays, birthdays and anniversaries. Ten years of a mother struggling to survive without her child. |
| Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, has lived a lifetime in the 10 years since her youngest son was killed for wearing a hoodie and looking suspicious to the man who fatally shot him; for walking from a convenience store with Skittles and a bottle of juice in his pocket; for having the audacity to exist; for being Black. READ MORE |
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| By Connie Schultz |
| Little good comes from a journalist trying to dissuade you from believing the latest fictional account of another journalist. |
| And yet, here I am, weighing in on the depiction of a reporter in Netflix's new series "Inventing Anna." |
| So predictable of us, this gut reaction whenever TV or film comes up with another version of what we do for a living. This is especially true when the actor is portraying, sort of, a real-life journalist, and thus elevating our colleagues' profile. We pick that apart like cats on a codfish. |
| One might be tempted to think envy plays a role here, but to you journalists reading this, let me stress that I do not mean you. You would never. READ MORE |
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| By Louie Villalobos |
| Mandates are lifting. Employers are calling us back to offices. And even some of the strictest and most vigilant among us have decided that enough is enough. |
| Americans are moving on from COVID-19, and I can't fault them for it if I'm being honest. It has been a horrible two years as we watched this pandemic pillage the world of life and common sense. And while I will be one of the last to take off my mask and get near people again, I understand why many of you are rushing back to "normal." |
| But. |
| Allow me to make a case that this pandemic isn't over and won't be anytime soon. Medically speaking, the pandemic isn't over. That's just the facts of it. But I'm talking about so much more here, about why "normal" will never be what any of us remember. I'm talking about the cultural impact of COVID-19. The things we lost and what that will mean for generations of us. READ MORE |
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