HeyJaredPublic Spaces
Public Spaces chronicles two suburban émigrés' encounters with city people creating different kinds of local, public life. www.polidevo.com
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The wounded organizer (opens the original)
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What happens when a community organizer’s difficult background—the one that leads them into mentoring and community organizing in the first place—returns and threatens to destroy their work? And when a community organizer’s life falls apart, what happens to the young people they’ve worked for years to mentor? Jason Williams knows. After two decades of mentoring boys and young men and helping to organize Birmingham’s inner-city neighborhoods and schools, his life fell apart. And in public, for al
Katie Couric's copying me (opens the original)
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I spend my early mornings in the mulch, sitting against the air-conditioning unit. I have my smoothie, and I have my cat. Our house sits at the end of a cul-de-sac, but one back corner faces our neighborhood’s main drag. Our neighbors, in the cool of the day, walk their dogs along this drag. The cat and I have learned to ignore the dogs. Stretched out on the mulch, the cat no longer even flinches when the unit’s fan cuts on. But what do the neighbors think? We’ve partially hidden the unit with t
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