The Movement to Stop Dollar Stores From Suffocating Black Communities. "They're like an invasive species. They overpower all the resources and make the businesses in those neighborhoods vulnerable."
What can we learn about art from The Simpsons? "The long-running sitcom has such wise lessons on the art world, it ought to be on art school curricula."
In the 70s, the Chicago Sun-Times bought a bar and staffed it with journalists to investigate extortion by city employees. "[Various inspectors] all took envelopes with money in them and they all passed us. And we should never have passed."
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