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The Leonard Lopate Show (Audio)

Extended family visits for inmates are disappearing from state correctional facilities. Journalist Sylvia A. Harvey sheds light on the 2.7 million kids who are losing the right to visit their parents in her cover story forContinue reading

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NPR

The number of people in jail and prison in America is staggering itself: more than two million people. Stop and think about the loved ones of the prisoners, and you realize millions more are waitingContinue reading

Family

What About Us? 2.7 Million Kids Have Parents in Prison.

2.7 Million Kids Have Parents in Prison. They’re Losing Their Right to Visit. My small feet thump the concrete as I hurry toward the door. My four older brothers trail closely behind. Upon entering, weContinue reading

Culture

A Gentrified Mind? Ask the Nomad Junkie

A Punk Rock band was an amped backdrop to a riveting poetic monologue that ripped into the air and put gentrification in a 50-minute choke-hold. Gentrified Minds (the NY Horror, Volume 2) is a protestContinue reading

Gentrification

If You Build It, Will They Come?

It's not uncommon for withering brown bananas to lay limp on the counter of my local bodega; or for the often-sticky floors to claim the soles of my shoes; or for the shelves to holdContinue reading

Reviews

RUINED: Congolese Diamonds in a Rough (a play review)

“The door never closes at Mama’s Place.” Despite the sirens of gunfire and bloodshed taking place in the rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, patrons retreat to Mama’s Place, where they can escapeContinue reading

Event Coverage

Put Children Above Politics, Urges Michelle Rhee ’92

Michelle Rhee '92 discusses American education in New York City Feb. 5. Self-defined "radical" education reformer Michelle Rhee '92 met rousing applause Feb. 5 at the Cornell Club in New York City. Rhee, whose talkContinue reading

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VIDEO: Out of Bounds

In the Black community, men who express even a passing, friendly physical affection toward each other are often subject to ridicule and homophobic attacks. But on the basketball court, the sight of men kissing, huggingContinue reading

Event Coverage

Cornell Tech designed ‘for next century’

With its innovative approach to sustainable design, the new Cornell NYC Tech campus on Roosevelt Island will be more than another ivory tower, as its forward-leaning design has innovative building technologies. The Symposium on ResilientContinue reading

Gentrification

An Honest Look at Bed-Stuy

One photographer allows his lens to enunciate the meaning of Bedford-Stuyvesant, where the rounded brown belly of a pregnant mother speaks of the future, Muslim women adorned in burkas speak about faith, and the EgyptianContinue reading