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Feb
18
2015
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Weekly round-up: Black stock characters, Opportunity Agenda, Fiction over Fact

BALLAD OF THE MAGICAL NEGRO: Eisa Davis performs her “Ballad of the Magical Negro,” about Black supporting stock characters ...
Feb
11
2015
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Storytelling round-up: Lynching history, abortion stigma, and more

NEW REPORT ON LYNCHING HISTORY: This week, the Equal Justice Initiative released an excellent new report documenting the 3,959 ...
Feb
4
2015
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What we’re reading: Harry Potter wins, measuring media impact, and info vs. wisdom

INFORMATION VS. WISDOM: In the video above, Maria Popova, founder and editor of Brain Pickings, says that storytellers interpret ...
Jan
28
2015
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Weekly round-up: on getting strangers’ stories, story maps, and not telling stories

HOW TO GET STORIES FROM STRANGERS: Above is a video of Brandon Stanton, the creator of the hugely popular ...
Jan
21
2015
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Weekly round-up: Cat memes, women journalists, vaccine stories

CAT MEMES: Last year, I wondered about whether inserting pictures of cats in social-change communications would make them more ...
Jan
14
2015
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Weekly round-up: understanding the lives of others

“LIFE CYCLES OF INEQUITY”: That’s the name of a series of Colorlines videos and articles on the stages of ...