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Brandon Harris Talks Gentrification, Race, and the Perennial Struggle of Making It in NYC

Posted on August 1, 2017February 22, 2021 by J. Oliver Conroy

In his first book, Making Rent in Bed-Stuy (HarperCollins, 2017), New York-based writer and filmmaker Brandon Harris uses his memoir of “trying to make it…

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Saul Williams On MartyrLoserKing: ‘I’m Trying to Redefine Gangster’

Posted on September 10, 2015 by amiltonnymag

Saul Williams — the well-known poet, musician and actor who got his start at dark, intimate open mics throughout Brooklyn in the ’90s, rose to prominence…

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Race Meets Reality in a Powerful New Art Show, ‘Raciality’

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Sam Gillette

“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will scar me for life,” reads a framed art installation, the white cursive letters bleached onto…

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Talks and Readings: Historic Greenpoint, Multiculti Confessions, and More

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Jaime Cone

TUESDAY Almost Famous, except about a girl. And set in the ’90s. And British. How to Build a Girl, described by the New York Times’ Dwight Garner…

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