Category: writing
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#GreensboroNow
It’s “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” a gesture that’s brought a mix of respect and revolt since it first appeared at protests in the wake of the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. And it’s just as clear a sign about where you stand on the issues facing…
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Letting Go of the Lunch Counter
“People are saying, ‘My vision is…,’” Lacy Ward says, leaving off the end of the sentence. “People have been disappointed that their vision has not been fulfilled by an institution. That doesn’t mean you give up on your vision.”
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Fresh Eyes: Hard Cider, Hard Issues with Lacy Ward
If you could create a handbook on how to have a conversation from here, post-Ferguson, to strengthen the relationship between the community and the police, what would it look like? Where do you start? Here’s what he said.
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Ryan Cavanaugh: From Russia with a 5-string banjo and an 8-string guitar player.
Pretty quickly, you can figure out that Ryan Cavanaugh has phoned in a preview interview a time or two. He kindly spells out the more curious-sounding words, mid-conversation. Like, Sochi. S. O. C. H. I. Cavanaugh has recently returned from a tour in Russia with Bill Evans’ Soulgrass project, where…
Molly McGinn 