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Bravo to the Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., for picking up the serial journalism baton. What I’m reading online: An Undying Mystery, by Deanna Pan and Jennifer Berry Hawes. “There’s an apprehensive naked little trembling boy/With his head in his hands/And there’s an underestimated and impatient little girl/Raising her hand.” I had to go with a song on an album, “Jagged Little Pill,” that’s one of the purest examples of female rage on vinyl.
The soundtrack: “Wake Up,” by Alanis Morissette. The writer Roxane Gay charged straight into uncomfortable territory, contributor Julia Shipley writes, saying that the subject of her acclaimed memoir, “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” fell squarely into the category of “What do I want to write about least?” In it, she disclosed things she “needed to say, but couldn’t say” for so many years - including her childhood rape. The Power of Narrative conference captures the #MeToo zeitgeist. Judging from the line-up at last weekend’s gathering at Boston University, it seemed like the male-directed conference was trying to meet the issues of women, and women of color, head on. Wells, pioneering investigative journalist.
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“I’d rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said.” And I love this lyric, “Patience is like bread I say/I ran out of that yesterday.” The album this song is on is near-perfection on the pure pop front. To paraphrase one of the band’s album titles, it’s a shame about the Lemonheads. The soundtrack: “It’s About Time,” by the Lemonheads.
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An answer came to her while researching a woman in the tennis world that answer snowballed into the idea for an entire series that would touch multiple segments of The Times. Wells? Sylvia Plath? Charlotte Bronte?) Contributor Julie Schwietert Collazo talked to the editor behind the project, who says she’s been “blown away” by the response. Padnani explained that in the wake of Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, she, a woman of color, wondered how she could “advance the conversation” about injustice, discrimination and inequality in a meaningful way. It was the initiative everyone was talking about: The Times righting an old wrong and giving some amazing women long-overdue obituaries. Wells is one of the women who didn't get a New York Times obit.Īnna Padnani on The New York Times’ “Overlooked” obituaries. Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Born a century later, the writer Roxane Gay is also brave, challenging people’s prejudices about large woman and taking on her trolls.
Wells was a brave, pioneering investigative journalist who fought for women’s rights and campaigned against lynching. Looking back at this week’s posts, I was struck by the similarities between two of the writers we spotlighted. Wells housing project in Chicago, named after the pioneering journalist. Children sing during a class at a community center in the Ida B.