Local journalism is doing great work across the country while fighting cutbacks and tight budgets. But we need people to stop expecting news to be freeMore than a year before Hurricane Harvey crashed into Houston, the Texas Tribune dug deep into how climate change and unchecked growth created a...
Month: September 2017
The NFL’s LA teams could bring empty stadium porn to a whole new level
America’s biggest league now has two Los Angeles teams. Judging from opening weekend, there may not be many fans to watch themIn American sports there seems to be an obsession with empty stadiums during games. It’s as if some secret mandate exists requiring fans to spend hundreds of dollars for...
A revolutionary, not a liberal: can a radical black mayor bring change to Mississippi?
34-year-old attorney Chokwe Lumumba sees his election win as proof that even in a red state in the age of Trump, many people are ready to be progressiveThe day Chokwe Lumumba’s father died in 2014, he asked for a moment to be alone in the room with the man he’d long considered his best friend. He...
The US Open showed black women have made American tennis great again
It’s not hyperbolic to say the game in the States is alive because of African American players like the Williams sisters and Sloane StephensThere’s been no shortage of anxiety over the future of American tennis over the last decade.Andy Roddick’s abrupt retirement during the 2012 US Open left the...
Why the Giant Mexican Earthquake Happened
Thursday night's quake, near an undersea crust collision zone, was the strongest to hit Mexico in a century -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Source: http://bppro.link/?c=TMs
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