Posts tagged Lizavandenboom
America Will Fall Apart...and That is Okay

Five days after the election, I sat in my Brooklyn apartment filtering through the previous week’s pent-up emails. After days of haphazardly wading through work, school and the onslaught of conflicting information, I found myself exhausted and behind. As I opened the third email of the day with some variation of “URGENT: TIME SENSITIVE” as the subject line, screams erupted from outside my bedroom window.

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What a New Yorker in 2020 has in Common with a Sculptor During the Black Death

I have walked through the Metropolitan Museum of Art on 5th Avenue more times than I can count. During my five years in New York City, the towering ceilings and echoing halls have provided a constant refuge and source of solace amid uncertainty and upheaval. 2020 has been an exceptional year, but this familiar place remains the same, even after months of closure.

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Introducing the Summer Opinion Series: "Letters From the Exiles"

As we begin to resume “normal life” again, it is important to take some time to consider the things we should keep and the things we should leave behind. How do we preserve what was good about the old life while reckoning with our extreme failures and systematic problems?

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Photo Gallery: Churches Across NYC Gather for a "Prayerful Protest"

On the corner of 98th Ave. and Park Place in Brooklyn, New York, over 100 churches came together with a single cry to a God of justice. A mile away at Barclays Center, the reoccurring 7:00 p.m. Black Lives Matter protest took form. At 7:25, the two marches converged, painting a picture of joint outrage.

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