Paper Citizen
America is a proud nation of immigrants—try telling that to everyone on the other side of the door. Life as a white-collar undocumented immigrant in New York.
Archive
A collection of 14284 issues
June 29, 2015
* SCOTUS takes a Monday victory lap with three final cases. * Arsonists have targeted at least six black churches in the South over the past week. * White supremacy, undercover. * Lessons learned by @afamhistfail after six years of teaching plantation tours. * Following ACA decision, investors bet on insurance market consolidation. * Texas to
Bree Newsome scaled the State House flagpole and removed the Confederate flag
“Newsome was halfway up the 30-foot pole when police demanded that she climb back down, but she continued upward and removed the flag.”
June 26, 2015
* Bree Newsome scaled the South Carolina State House flagpole and removed the Confederate flag. * Supreme Court rules against same-sex marriage bans. * Andrew Sullivan: "It is accomplished." * "A ban on discrimination in employment and housing based on sexual orientation or gender identity still eludes us." * Neither
June 25, 2015
* Supreme Court says Obamacare can keep tax subsidies. * Alabama governor removes Confederate flags from Capitol. * Democrat Jim Webb is the only 2016 hopeful who thinks maybe the Confederate flag should stay. * Bombing victim: Tsarnaev's apology was hollow and insincere. * Middle-class black families tend to live in lower-
Fight or Flight
A near-death experience makes this week’s International Asteroid Day a little more tricky to celebrate.
June 24, 2015
* NSA spied on French presidents from 2006 to 2012, according to Wikileaks. * UN Peacekeepers accused of sexually abusing children in the Central African Republic. * "Colleagues say they are witnessing a more human side of Obama than they have seen before." * Secret World War II mustard gas experiments grouped
June 23, 2015
* Amazon and eBay are still selling the Confederate flag items you can no longer buy at Walmart. * "People are starting to acknowledge the evil and pain we see when we see that flying at our state Capitol." * A tour of a white supremacy subreddit: "a demagogic turd
A Heritage of Hate
Why it’s the duty of every white American to burn a Confederate flag.
June 22, 2015
* "If we were seen as living, we would not be dying simply because whites don’t like us." * FBI director says Charleston shooting isn't terrorism because the shooter lacked political motivation. * Hundreds of worshippers filled Emanuel AME Church yesterday. * Harlem church congregations swelled on Sunday, showing