Laura Kasinof Laura Kasinof
Laura Kasinof is the author of Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen. From 2011 to 2012, she reported for The New York Times from Sana. She currently lives in Morocco.
May 4, 2015
Eric S. Singer Eric S. Singer
Eric Singer is the Principal Researcher and Curriculum Outreach Coordinator for Untold History of the United States. He is an urban historian specializing in Baltimore’s 20th Century social and cultural history and has designed and taught various courses on the city’s history. He is currently working on a book about Cold War civil defense in Baltimore.
May 1, 2015
Lawrence Cappello Lawrence Cappello
Lawrence Cappello is Ph.D. Candidate in History at the CUNY Graduate Center and a lecturer at CUNY Queens College, where he teaches a course on the History of Privacy in America.
Apr 30, 2015
Piotr Zalewski Piotr Zalewski
Piotr Zalewski is based in Istanbul and has written for Time magazine, Financial Times, and Foreign Policy, among other publications.
Apr 30, 2015
Jeffrey Bishku-Aykul Jeffrey Bishku-Aykul
Jeffrey Bishku-Aykul is a reporter for the Hyde Park Herald, a community newspaper on Chicago’s South Side.
Apr 29, 2015
Andre Penner Andre Penner
Apr 29, 2015
Steve Colman Steve Colman
Steve Colman is an award-winning spoken word poet, playwright, producer, and director. He co-wrote and co-starred in the Tony Award-winning Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway and co-conceived and assistant directed Sarah Jones’s Tony Award- winning Broadway hit Bridge and Tunnel, which was originally produced by Off Broadway by Meryl Streep. He led the team, along with Spike Lee, that brought Lemon Andersen’s critically acclaimed solo show County of Kings to the Public Theater. He was the inaugural poet on HBO’s Def Poetry. Through his creative collaboration with Sarah Jones, Colman developed multiple projects for television, film,and stage, including A Right To Care, Jones’s solo performance piece about racial and ethnic disparities in the American health care system. Colman began performing poetry at the Nuyorican Poets Café on Manhattan's Lower East Side. He won the National Poetry Slam championship as a member of the 1998 Nuyorican Poets Café slam team. The Nuyorican Poets Café honored him with the Fresh Poet Award in 1999. He has toured the world with his popular brand of poetry and storytelling and is the co-author of Burning Down the House (SoftSkull Press), and Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway and More (Atria).
Apr 29, 2015
Eugenia Williamson Eugenia Williamson
Eugenia Williamson is a freelance writer and a contributing editor at The Baffler.
Apr 29, 2015
Stacia L. Brown Stacia L. Brown
Stacia L. Brown is a writer and mother in Baltimore, Maryland.
Apr 28, 2015