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Even A Granddaughter’s Love Couldn’t Save Her
“What’s my name? Who am I?” my grandmother screamed. “And who are you?” she asked, looking straight at me. I repeated my name, over and over, hoping one of those times it would stick.
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Tamino At Bowery Ballroom, On The Eve Of The Pandemic
The crowd was silent as the smooth and almost haunting reverberation of the word “habibi” lingered in the air. No one dared disrupt the harmony coming from the deep, gentle voice and soft strums
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A Little Place On The Lower East Side
Even at 10 pm on a Saturday night, Bluestockings Bookstore is bustling with life. Hipster college students, snug in their colorful Carhartt beanies and fraying thrift store coats, weave in and out of aisles
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The Subway, Remembered
A sudden jolt as the train lurches forward along the metal tracks, breaking a thick silence. Approaching its next stop the train slows, and the riders fidget with impatience. Fluorescent lights fall hard on
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Quarantine Journal: Living With Distance
In these vignettes, 15 journalism students at Hunter College offer a glimpse at human interaction in the age of COVID-
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What’s For Lunch During A Quarantine?
As the 275,000 students who attend CUNY’s 26 campuses across New York City do their part to stem the spread of the coronavirus by isolating themselves in their homes, they still have much to
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Cooped up in Cooperman
Paper crinkles as one student, engulfed in a black parka with a white, faux-fur hood, writes diligently in her yellow notepad. Her head shifts between the pad in front of her and her phone.
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A View From The Ferry
People hurried as time escaped them. Only a few minutes to go or they would be left behind. With tunnel vision, some walked fast, seamlessly weaving in and out of obstacles in their way
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Strangers’ Kindness
It was a chilly and windy mid-October day in New York City and the second time I had to make a trip down the Chinese Consulate on 12th Avenue and 42nd Street to renew
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Racing Against Anxiety
It was 3:59 p.m., and my hands held my track bag, ready to leave. I counted down the seconds for my College Now English class to end. It was time for indoor track practice.
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