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New-Age Parenting Culture Invades the NFL

January 29, 2015 by fritztucker

With the Super Bowl just days away, the media is obsessing over Marshawn Lynch, the Seattle Seahawks running back who has accrued over $100,000 in fines by the NFL for his unwillingness to talk to the media. From an economic standpoint, it may be hard for some to empathize with a man working under a $30 million contract, especially considering that his salary depends on the footage-fueled idol-worship of everyday Americans. Empathy, however, should come from the fact that the average career for […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: civil rights, ethics

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Simpler Times

January 14, 2015 by fritztucker

Today I stumbled upon these photos from a 1946 yearbook uploaded to Imgur. The captions speak for themselves, with descriptions like: Vera Brumfield: Our pretty little “fat” girl–nice as they come. Doesn’t really need reducing. Mildred Howerton: Here comes the Navy. She’s got the ring but Mildred, remember, a sailor’s got a gal in every port. Catherine Cobb: Plump, nice, good all around. Always a smile, never a frown–Her pet game is basketball. Romaine Childress: Big little woman, pleasant ways, […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: childhood, civil rights, education, gender, love, politics, sexuality, women

Holiday Mix

December 18, 2014 by William Eaton

A sight we have come to dread during the holidays is the invasion of Santas and Mrs. Santas for their annual drinking “pub crawl.” SantaCon 2014 took place this past Saturday, December 9, and, according to news reports, it was supposed to be saner and more sober. It did start out less boisterous in New York City, perhaps because the same day 25,000 people gathered in Washington Square Park to march against Police Violence. These two radically different populations intermixed in […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: art, civil rights

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Iconic, but of what?

December 3, 2014 by fritztucker

[print_link] [email_link] If a tree falls in a forest and six different news channels capture footage of it, does it matter? The Internet has changed, ever so slightly, the definition of mass media. Major networks still create most of it. Now, however, anybody has the potential to create iconic images if they get enough retweets and ‘Likes’ on Facebook. Recently, a photo of a crying Afro-American boy embracing a compassionate, Euro-American cop at a Ferguson solidarity protest in Portland, Oregon has gone viral, typically accompanied […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: African-Americans, art, children, civil rights, ethics, New York City, politics, race, technology

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The Lincoln Tunnel to Ferguson

November 26, 2014 by William Eaton

I regrettably ended up with the more dysfunctional of the two ‘solidarity with Ferguson’ protests last night. I didn’t think marching to Times Square was desirable in the first place. Somewhere along the way, however, we went west, and half-an-hour later ended up at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. For those who are familiar with NYC geography, that is a considerable and complex diversion, not merely a wrong turn. I asked several people how/why we ended up there. The only person who […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: African-Americans, civil rights, crime, death, New York City, politics, race

Why we feel ambivalent

November 24, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

(Towards Migrants and Migration Acts) Many liberals and human rights advocates supported president Obama’s executive action on immigration last week. Many others, however, are ambivalent about their take on this act. Should we protect families even if parents are undocumented? While the response is obvious to me (yes), I take this ambivalence as a healthy sign of thoughtfulness and change. It also reveals a common social response to others and outsiders. Professor Jacqueline Bhabha discusses this issue in her new book Child Migration & Human Rights in a Global […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: children, civil rights, Harvard University Press, immigration, Jacqueline Bhabha, law, Obama's immigration act, otherness, politics

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Deportation is also about those who stay

November 17, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

On Saturday, the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece by Diane Guerrero, the Colombian actress who plays Maritza Ramos in “Orange Is the New Black.” It tells the story of how Guerrero lost her parents to deportation when she was barely 14, starting with her worst fears growing up: Throughout my childhood I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys, but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, civil rights, deportation, Diane Guerrero, immigration, LA Times, Los Angeles Times, politics