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In a 99-cent AriZona Iced Tea can, echoes of childhood autonomy and fleeting freedoms

AriZona Iced Tea has long been a symbol of childhood autonomy and simple pleasures

The Independent UK · Oct 2

Between third and seventh centuries CE, certain type of clothe was discovered to protect children, in modern times hoodies have become associated with street protests, groups, gangs, rise against political authorities

When a young Mark Zuckerberg held meetings with investors just months after Trayvon Martin’s death, his hoodie raised eyebrows for different reasons.

The Economic Times · Aug 16

From sportswear to protest attire: the surprisingly political history of the hoodie

In the cold weather, few items of clothing beat a hoodie. They’re comfy, warm and they look cool.

The Conversation · Aug 13

Shootings of people who mistakenly go the wrong house test limits of stand your ground laws

The fatal shooting in early November of a house cleaner who mistakenly went to the wrong address in Indiana feels hauntingly familiar

The Independent UK · Nov 21, 2025

Florida’s new open carry ruling combines with ‘stand your ground’ to create new freedoms – and new dangers

Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first “stand your ground” law, calling it a “good, common-sense, anti-crime issue.”

The Conversation · Nov 17, 2025

‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America

In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy

The Guardian - US · Oct 18, 2025

Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of A Nation – this documentary can’t reconcile nostalgia with the true contemporary US

When Jack Kerouac published On the Road in 1957, he presented the novel as the product of a single marathon writing binge. It was a method he had been working on since the late 1940s that his friend Allen Ginsberg dubbed “spontaneous bop prosody”.

The Conversation · Oct 10, 2025

‘The world needs to know what happened to my baby’: inside devastating new police bodycam film The Perfect Neighbor

Composed almost entirely of footage filmed by police, The Perfect Neighbor is a harrowing documentary about a black woman shot by her white neighbour in Florida. The director reveals how she made it

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2025

5 years after George Floyd’s murder: How the media narrative has changed around the killing and the protests that followed

On the evening of May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police outside a grocery store in Minneapolis.

The Conversation · May 23, 2025

For Black men, fashion has been a tool of self-expression — and a way they've been judged

Clothing as message

The Independent UK · May 1, 2025