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January 5, 2015 Prachi Gupta

On Sunday, about three dozen people gathered in New York City in solidarity with Oakland’s #BlackBrunch movement, a peaceful demonstration that sent activists into restaurants to remind captive audiences of the social injustices that people of color face every day. In New York, protesters hit up spots like Lallisse, Maialino and Pershing Square in Midtown […]

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February 6, 2014 Andy Cush

If two Danish dudes carefully playing the melody to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” on empty beer bottles as they look into each other’s eyes isn’t the epitome of goofy white people-ness, I don’t know what is. Still, by the time The Bottle Boys‘ hip-hop bottle medley gets to “Hard Knock Life,” […]

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May 15, 2013 Andy Cush

Sorry, white people from Iowa. Columbia University’s Lydia C. Roberts scholarship, established in 1920, offered financial aid to your kind and your kind only. Not a “[person] of the Caucasian race, of either sex, born in the State of Iowa,” who “graduated from a college or university in the State of Iowa?” You’re not eligible for […]

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