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THE RED SEA: TEACHERS WANT BETTER PAY, LAWMAKERS WANT CORPORATE TAX BREAKS

Written by JEFFREY C. BILLMAN Posted May 23, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Democracy in Crisis

Since gaining control of the legislature in 2011, North Carolina Republicans have been on a singular mission to make life better for their wealthy and corporate allies.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Democracy in Crisis Tagged With: Democracy in Crisis, education, governing, INDY Week, Kentucky, North Carolina, teachers

LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY: BOSTON NATIVE SKATES ACROSS COUNTRY FOR TRANS RIGHTS AND AWARENESS

Written by KATELYN BURNS Posted December 13, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Only two other people, both cisgender men, have ever successfully skateboarded across the country solo before. It’s a tremendous test of an endurance that requires meticulous planning and survival skills.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: bathroom bill, Bend, Boston, Calleigh Little, HB2, LGBTQ, Long Distance Pushing, nationwide, North Carolina, Oregon, skateboarding, trans, trans rights, US

WHITE SUPREMACY, MONUMENTS, AND POWER

Written by BAYNARD WOODS Posted August 25, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

He was filmed and photographed beating a black man, Deandre Harris, by what looks like the Village People of racists—one with a Nazi helmet, another like a construction, one in a polo, and another, like this guy, with beard and baseball hat.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Baynard Woods, Charlottesville, DC, Democracy in Crisis, Donald Trump, Durham, North Carolina, Trump International Hotel, Virginia, White House, white supremacy

MORE BOOS FOR BAKER

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted May 3, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The other reason I generally avoid the subject is because I’m transgender, and I already get enough threats for my reporting.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston City Council, Charlie Baker, Department of Correction, discrimination, Governor Baker, HB2, incarceration, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Legislature, North Carolina, prison, Prostitution, rape, transgender

TABLE FOR ONE: JULIANNA BARWICK CREATES A MUSICAL FEAST ALL BY HERSELF

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted April 27, 2016 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

Experimental electronic musician Julianna Barwick on how she enters a studio empty-handed but leaves with more magic than she can hold.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2016, Boston, Cambridge, Dig, DigBoston, Dirty Projectors, Electronic, Experimental, Iceland, Interview, Julianna Barwick, Lisbon, Mas Ysa, middle east upstairs, Missouri, Moog, Music, Nat Baldwin, Nepenthe, North Carolina, Skinny Bones, st. nothing, Will

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