Black adults are 20 percent more likely than white adults to report serious psychological distress, and yet many are apprehensive about seeking professional help for…
Continue reading → Q&A with Independent Filmmaker about Black Communities and Mental Illness
UPDATE: [1:46 pm]: Samhita over at Feministing says it way better than I can: "I ask not 'where is occupy?' but what will it take…
Continue reading → Today is the 1 Year Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
1.) Sam Taylor just finished an eleven-month tour in Iraq as a chaplain's assistant with the U.S. army. While enlisted, she hid her transgender identity…
A new Oxygen network show ("Brooklyn 11223") is focusing on people of Italian descent living in Bay Ridge, the waterfront district of southwest Brooklyn. Too…
Continue reading → *Another* Brooklyn Reality Show? First Brighton Beach, Now Bay Ridge
Nick Ripatrazone writes "On Getting Paid: Literary Magazines and Remuneration" over at The Millions. He doesn't say very many new things about making a living…
About 150 homeless campers and activists affiliated with the OccupyNOLA movement were evicted from Duncan Plaza yesterday, Tuesday December 6. They had been occupying the…
Continue reading → Evicting Tent City in New Orleans: Look Familiar?
For the last two days, Muscovites have been taking to the streets to protest the recent (and rigged) Russian parliamentary election results. They have been…
Continue reading → Moscow Protests: Quick Summary & Takeaways
This is great news: On the evening of Monday, November 7, The Ali Forney Center ...reopened a 20-bed emergency shelter in Brooklyn as a shelter…
Continue reading → UPDATE: New Shelter for Homeless LGBTQ youth in NYC
I attended a rally on Monday of this week put on by a coalition of organizations fighting for more homeless shelters for LGBTQ young people.…
Continue reading → Voices of the Movement for LGBTQ Homeless Youth
I shot some video at last night's Occupy Wall Street protests in Times Square (commentary by my friend Matthew Palevsky, a strategist at Purpose): By the…
Continue reading → Video of Occupy Wall Street in Times Square
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