Community
June 5, 2025
Opinion: Chris Lambert Sings Another Tune as True Crime Podcaster
Chris Lambert's podcast "Your Own Backyard" is examined through the lens of his work as an advocate and journalist.
May 20, 2025
Is New York City’s Textured Hair Law Working?
In 2023, New York adopted a bill for salons to include training for textured hair Nearly two years later, has the law made a difference? Or are Black women still getting excluded from luxury hair treatment spaces?
May 20, 2025
Forza Is the Studio. Sydney Dumler Is the Brand.
Sydney Dumler created the Pilates studio of many people’s dreams. Women walk around in Forza sweatshirts and biker shorts, a la Princess Diana. SunLife Organics offers a Matcha, coconut sorbet, and raspberry smoothie called “Expensive,” which shares a name with Forza’s signature candle scent.
May 19, 2025
The Forgotten Stories of Southern Journalism
I drove three hours to talk with my grandmother about her years as an award-winning journalist. Her story began when she felt compelled to tell someone else’s—a man who had just written his first big country hit. It was the late 1980s when she cold-called the Mobile Press-Register, Alabama’s oldest newspaper, and pitched a feature.
May 19, 2025
Displacement, Development, and the Fight for Home
"It’s like they’re building a city for someone else." As new high-end housing reshapes Linden, longtime residents like the Consuegras struggle to survive, caught in a crisis of affordability, community loss, and political inaction.