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May 29, 2014The Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) now in its sixth year has been successful in portraying a part of Palestinian culture rarely...
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May 29, 2014RIP Maya Angelou (1928-2014) Caged Bird A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his...
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May 21, 2014In his contribution to The New York Times Op-Ed column, Korean novelist Kim Young-ha writes : “[Suicide is] the No.1 cause of death for...
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May 19, 2014Since early May, the #BringBackOurGirls campaign has permeated the highest ranks of government and sparked a resurgence of global hashtag...
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May 13, 2014Last week, a friend posted a link to Viviana Leo’s recent piece in The HuffPost Latino Voices, “Racism over Rice and Beans.” Reading it was...
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May 12, 2014This September, the people of Scotland will vote in a referendum on whether or not Scotland should be an independent country, ending its...
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May 8, 2014More and more of our jobs are replaced by software, robots, and other forms of technology. Of course, in their mad quest to cut payroll,...
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May 7, 2014Author Junot Diaz recently published a critique of the “whiteness” of MFA programs in The New Yorker's blogs section. This is a shortened...
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May 5, 2014The Twitter and Tumblr campaign of #WeNeedDiverseBooks , an initiative aimed at highlighting just how lacking in diversity the literary...
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May 5, 2014Two weeks ago I wrote a piece about a Humans of New York (HONY) post which featured a white teacher talking about the challenges he faces...
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