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Brandon Dean is the Mayor-elect of Brighton, Alabama, and he’s more than ready to pull up his sleeves and get to work. A fifth-generation Brightonian, Dean has a personal commitment to the well-being of its people. After two internships on Capitol Hill and founding Our Blue Hope – a national political action committee that aims to fight Republican super majority…
For example, Latinas are often imagined as hypersexualized beings, or as not having the capabilities to inhabit roles like ‘teacher’ or ‘mentor’. Sexuality and intellect are almost never considered in conjunction. To this she essentially says, “Hold up––we can be sharp as tacks and wear red dresses too.” Latinas can be quirky intellectuals and make grandma’s killer tamales. Acosta should…
Yasin Osman teaches city kids to shoot. Not like, shoot shoot. He teaches them to be photographers. He hopes that this will keep them away from crime, something he knows intimately. “I don’t know anybody who’s died from cancer,” Osman told The Star. “I only know people who have been killed by gun violence.” Osman – who is also a…
Come Fall, she is likely to be the first Somali-American to take public office, serving in the House of Representatives for the State of Minnesota. When she was little, her family fled Somalia spent the next four years in a Kenyan refugee camp. When she came to the US she didn’t know any English, but she learned quickly. Once she…
Many of us never have the chance to grasp what it’s like to have Schizophrenia, or to know someone closely who struggles with the mental disorder. Emily Robinson’s mother, Cindy, has had schizophrenia for about 40 years. What some may see as a sad story about a debilitating mental illness, Emily is transforming into a story of tender connection on…
Jacob Riis was a Danish immigrant who was horrified to discover that opportunity in the USA was pretty much a myth. Everything he’d heard about America back in Europe seemed to be false. Coming to New York in 1870 with $40 and the clothes on his back, Jacob lived with thousands of Polish, Italian, Irish and other immigrants living in…
Meet physicist Whitney Ingram, breaking down barriers in nanomaterials and gender roles. Today she’s sharing her research on invisibility cloaks with New Sincerity. – – – As a child, I was always curious about the natural world: Why does this glow? How does electricity work? How do generators work? Those questions never died as I got older. I felt physics was…
Mindy Abovitz is a drummer and media executive smashing stereotypes in the music world. She’s the founder of all-girl Tom Tom Magazine and she was sweet enough to share her passion and story with New Sincerity. Cheers, and happy reading! – – – I gravitated toward the drum set most likely because it was a rebellious thing for a girl…
Dr. Adrienne Keene is part Cherokee, part ivy-league scholar, and part superwoman. She’s starting as a professor in American Studies at Brown University and runs a blog that we’re all looking at called Native Appropriations. The blog has been around for a hot minute and it’s full of Native positive representations, contemporary designers and art. Adrienne also talks pop culture––like when…
Professor Ashon Crawley chose a compassionate path on Twitter when dealing with the homophobic nonsense that Kim Burrell said. Ellen at Race Ahead shared the conversation and breaks it down: “…Ashon did a remarkable job unpacking the complexity of being a gay person of color trying to exist within a Christian community that condemns you with impunity. ‘It’s easy to…
