Media Bits and Bytes — September 15, 2026
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Buried alive in AI
Buried alive in AI
Buried alive in AI
Dispatches From the Culture Wars — December 16, 2025
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Breaking the ICE
Dispatches From the Culture Wars — December 2, 2025
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Preparing for a new phase of resistance
Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti Is Part of a Broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration
The Conversation
It is this – and so much more – that makes theirs a truly American story.
How the “Subversive Genius” of Kendrick Lamar Sent Trump Home a Loser
The Nation
The Philadelphia Eagles and Kendrick Lamar’s collective of geniuses made this the Super Bowl we needed. This year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans could have been a fascist Mardi Gras. Then, the unexpected....
labor
Amid Lots of Bad News for Working People, a Win in New Orleans Offers Hope
In These Times
The Workers’ Bill of Rights—supported by more than 80% of voters—is the latest tool to reduce labor exploitation.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 30, 2024
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Oscar fever
‘Wholly Ineffective and Pretty Obviously Racist’: Inside New Orleans’ Struggle With Facial-Recognition Policing
Politico
Records obtained and analyzed by POLITICO reveal the practice failed to identify suspects a majority of the time and is disproportionately used against Black people.
Friday Nite Videos | June 25, 2021
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Sha’Carri Richardson Wins Gold & Carl Nassib Becomes First Openly Gay NFL Player. The Music’s Back in This Region. A Crime On The Bayou. Buy, Borrow, Die: How America's Ultrawealthy Stay That Way. How Quantum Mechanics Helps Birds Find Their Way.
A Crime On The Bayou (2021) | Trailer
Attorney Richard Sobol stands up to a racist legal system to defend Gary Duncan, a Black teenager wrongfully accused of assaulting a boy in 1966 New Orleans. In select theaters now.
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