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House Engraved

The plastic ghouls and rope nets, wired spiders in frozen creep, this cemetery of street, this house cobwebbed in gauze of pretend decay, and along front window, the letters of her name, inked and hung with care. One wants to read “Happy Halloween” there, but instead these letters, more ache, more memorial, renders whole house …

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Electoral College Reform- America’s Red, White, & “Varsity Blues”

A closer look at electoral college reform, the future of democracy, and the college scandal that affects us all The 2020 election places America at an historic crossroad in our nation’s identity; we must choose between an idealized past and a future born from a culmination of battles fought and won to bring equal measure …

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Silver Lake Expands Its “Say Their Names” Project

After Silver Lake residents fashioned a memorial to unarmed Black American citizens killed by police last month, volunteers have augmented their efforts. The two-mile memorial – created with multi-colored fabric woven into chain-link fence spelling out names of about 200 individuals – now includes laminated biographies, further detailing lives and how they were cut short. …

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Kamaldeen Arası Moyosore: “The Only Good Thing About Death”

The Only Good Thing About Death the only good thing about death is the death of something bad: it is no surprise my neighbor’s wives prayed for the death of their husband’s drunk smiles. some people said some people killed some people, instead some informed people said good people killed the bad ones the way …

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Serving Movements for Peace from the Deserts of Arizona to the Streets of L.A.

In the summer of 2013, I spent a week in the Tucson-sector of the US-Mexico border with No More Deaths, “a humanitarian organization based in Southern Arizona” that works to end the death and suffering of migrants crossing in the desert, when I had driven a carload of donations to their desert office in Arivaca, …

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