December 2021 Magazine

Christopher E. Montoya and Joshua Grant

Moving Through Space                                                                                                                                                                                This month we feature the incredible expanse of space at Dance Conservatory Seattle. This new dance studio is the brainchild of Joshua Grant, Christopher E. Montoya and Sierra Keith. Located in Seattle’s South Park industrial area, the studio is a huge space that is as large as an airport hangar, yet it has the look and feel of a stage. 

Jelani Cobb Reflects on the Matter of Black Lives                                                                                                                                Nick Licata interviews Professor Jelani Cobb, a staff writer for the New Yorker, who has authored three groundbreaking books on race in America. The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker, which he co-authored with David Remnick, came out this fall. It collects many of the most thoughtful writers portraying Black life in America over the last century.
                                                                         
Building Back Better: The U.S. State Department
Barbara Lloyd McMichael’s column Building Back Better explores the history of the U.S. Department of State. This will be the final installment of our year-long series on the function of a Cabinet in the executive branch of the United States government, and more particularly, how the State Department is tackling Joe Biden’s promise to Build Back Better.

Foreign Policy Experts: A Roundup                                                                                                                                                         We asked some foreign policy experts around the country what they’d like to see the State Department prioritize in order to Build Back Better on a global scale. Here’s what they had to say…

NOTES FROM THE WORKING CLASS: Kids Like Us
Patricia Vaccarino writes about William “Bill” Powers who lived about thirty miles northwest of Denver in Longmont, a town famous for its craft breweries. Although Bill lived in Colorado, he never forgot his hometown Yonkers.

 

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