This week, we're sharing stories from Max Blau, Venessa Wong, Hope Wabuke, David Dayen, and Mark Sundeen.
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Max Blau | ProPublica | March 22, 2021 | 9,852 words
"Near America's largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs."
Venessa Wong | BuzzFeed News | March 20, 2021 | 5,050 words
"For so long, we've thought keeping our heads down and being invisible in America might help us gain acceptance — but the recent wave of racist violence has shattered that myth."
Hope Wabuke | LA Review of Books | March 23, 2021 | 5,395 words
"Green, blue — Disney has no problem with characters that are different colors, it seems, as long as that color is not brown. What does it say to Black kids watching when the world's biggest children's entertainment company cannot give them even one animated film that features a Black person that stays a Black person throughout? What does this say about Blackness to kids who are not Black? About whose life is being portrayed as mattering? And whose does not?"
David Dayen | American Prospect | March 22, 2021 | 7,400 words
"Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work."
Mark Sundeen | Outside | March 23, 2021 | 8,655 words
"I didn't hear from her. I had flings with other women, but nobody equaled her. Unable to maintain a relationship, I got a dog, a heeler mutt puppy I saw in a cardboard box at the supermarket. I named her Sadie. When Wendy returned a year or so later, she was with a new guy, a fisherman, long hair and a beard, engaged to marry."
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