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In February, a news alert popped up on my phone from the New York Times. Such alerts often bring word of natural disasters and notable deaths. This one announced that Jon Stewart was stepping down from The Daily Show on Comedy Central with the kind of...

Race is about the American story, and about each of our own stories. Overcoming racism is more than an issue or a cause—it is also a story, which can be part of each of our stories, too. The story about race that was embedded into America at the founding...

It may seem like hyperbole to say that a music act can alter one’s worldview in a significant way, but anyone who knows me knows that music is an incredibly important, often powerful part of my life – and “powerful” is as apt a term as any for what Public...

2009–2016: Highlights from The Stranger's Award-Winning Imperial Phase by Stranger Staff I doubt that anyone who worked at The Stranger in the ’90s or the ’00s would ever guess that one year we’d win a Pulitzer Prize. After all, The Stranger launched...

In Alabama Martin Luther King, Jr. took some of the most dramatic stands of the Civil Rights Movement, in Selma, in Montgomery, and in Birmingham. Half a century after those history-making events — and the March on Washington — King’s legacy, and the...