By Virginia Lowman When news of George Floyd’s death began to circulate in late May, I heard Dominique Fils-Aimé’s rendition of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” play in my mind. This is one of many death rituals I’ve assumed since Philando Castile was shot dead by police on Facebook Live in
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By Crystal Bell Daniel Diemer spruces up a small area of his Studio City apartment for a full day of Zoom interviews in promotion of the new Netflix film The Half of It, but he only keeps things professional from the waist up. A sartorial mullet, of sorts. “I’m wearing
Read moreEvery weekday morning, the boys wake up at 7 a.m. in their shared, open-floor rooms at the Rogue Valley Youth Correctional Facility in Oregon. Usually, they’d get ready for their day and walk to the nearby six-room school, where they would join about 65 other residents for class. At the
Read moreBy Sarah Emily Baum With seven months to go before the November general election, Elijah Manley should be knocking on doors and courting constituents. Instead, the 21-year-old college student and congressional candidate in Florida’s 94th legislative district is in isolation because he likely has COVID-19, the illness caused by the
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