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" Food deserts on Chicago's South Side have shrunk some since 2006, and this has provided health benefits to the communities. "
Elizabeth Flock
Food
Chicago
Benefits
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" Every Valentine's Day, I pretend I don't care. Like many of us, I say I don't want the flowers or chocolates or a homemade card. How cheesy. I pretend that it's over-the-top to want the person you like to make you a ridiculously nice dinner, or do some showy gesture, ala John Cusack with the boombox in 'Say Anything.' "
Elizabeth Flock
Care
You
Nice
" In Mumbai, I found, people practiced a showy, demonstrative kind of love, one unafraid of affection or emotion. "
Elizabeth Flock
Love
Kind
Affection
" In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent killer. "
Elizabeth Flock
Gay
Peak
Fight
" Those who use the term 'alt-left' consistently point to violence from the left, often by anti-fascists - both perceived and real. "
Elizabeth Flock
Violence
Point
Use
" Just a decade after 'Living in Bondage,' Nollywood films, made in some 300 languages, were being watched in both urban and rural areas, distributed on both the streets and online, and finding their way into international festivals. "
Elizabeth Flock
Festivals
Streets
Way
" HIV/AIDS isn't a top priority for any of the three major LGBT groups in the U.S.: not the HRC, or the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), or the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) - who together are somewhat pejoratively known as 'Gay Inc.' "
Elizabeth Flock
Against
Three
Together
" The battle between craft breweries and big beer stretches back to the 1990s, when the idea of buying a beer brewed by a small, independent brewery first took off. "
Elizabeth Flock
First
Battle
Craft
" Hurricane Irma devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands, leveling homes, knocking out power, and turning the landscape into a 'battered wasteland' where some say media coverage was minimal and help was late to arrive. "
Elizabeth Flock
Late
Help
Landscape
" Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer. "
Elizabeth Flock
Immigration
Dialogue
Dictate
" The American Humanist Association, whose slogan is 'Good without a God,' created the National Day of Reason with the Washington Area Secular Humanists to raise awareness about government threats to religious liberty and up the profile of the non-religious community. "
Elizabeth Flock
Good
God
Day
" I think there is this cliche of Indian men who want a forward-thinking girlfriend but a traditional wife. I think that creates tension in a marriage. "
Elizabeth Flock
Marriage
Think
Want
" At first glance, The Color Run does look a lot like Holi. Its website is populated by photos of people throwing coloured powder at each other and in the air, outdoors, at the start of spring. The only difference, it seemed, was that there was a 5 km. run added in. And that it cost $54.99 to participate. "
Elizabeth Flock
Color
Run
Start
" Hindu nationalist outfits like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh perpetuate a false notion of the 'love jihad' - the false idea that young Muslim men are making Hindu girls fall in love with them to trick them into converting to Islam. "
Elizabeth Flock
Like
Islam
Young
" May 2 is traditionally the National Day of Prayer, a government-designated religious event intended to encourage people to 'turn to God in prayer and meditation.' "
Elizabeth Flock
God
People
Prayer
" Much has been written about Trump's style of speech, which linguists have said is often unintelligible yet deeply compelling. Orwell's famous 1946 essay, 'Politics and the English Language,' centers on the use of abstract words, often by politicians, to obscure reality. "
Elizabeth Flock
Reality
Famous
Words
" Antoine 'Fats' Domino was a 1950s rock n' roll pioneer, a larger-than-life New Orleans figure, and a role model for the African-American community in a time of deep segregation. "
Elizabeth Flock
Community
Time
Role Model
" There is a perception that the media is very liberal, very biased, produces fake news. "
Elizabeth Flock
News
Liberal
Media
" The Museum of the Bible, the sprawling, 430,000-square-foot tribute to the good book, has been dogged by controversies long before opening day. It's been criticized for not including enough Jesus, for excluding various religious traditions, and for being evangelical propaganda. "
Elizabeth Flock
Book
Bible
Day
" India has a long history with devotional, even obsessive love, be it for a personal god or for your lover. "
Elizabeth Flock
Your
Long
India
" Showy displays of love don't come naturally to everyone. They don't come naturally to me. They also come with a risk: a risk of rejection, being made to feel silly, or making yourself into a spectacle. "
Elizabeth Flock
Me
Love
Rejection
" In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' protagonist Winston Smith works at a propaganda department for the state called the 'Ministry of Truth,' where inconvenient news can be discarded down a 'memory hole.' Orwell was fixated on the idea that under certain governments, the past can be altered or documents rewritten. "
Elizabeth Flock
Past
Hole
Down
" So often, as a reporter, we have to parachute into places. We don't have much time. We have to make sense of the story as fast as we can. "
Elizabeth Flock
Fast
Much
Places
" Leftist, anti-fascist activists known as Antifa, whose stated goals are to stamp out racism, white supremacy and authoritarianism, sometimes do use violence. "
Elizabeth Flock
Racism
Goals
White
" The American public believes the Founding Fathers were close to infallible and that, while our political system has its faults, it functions far better than other democracies. But is it true? "
Elizabeth Flock
Better
Far
Political
" Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate in 2012, a percentage about equivalent with 2008. "
Elizabeth Flock
Liberal
Advocacy
Right
" The groups who spend the most on lobbying lawmakers in Washington are well-known: ExxonMobil, Boeing, AT&T, General Electric. "
Elizabeth Flock
Electric
Most
Washington
" Artists know they need to have digital presences to build and bolster their fan base, and fans have exploited that fact. "
Elizabeth Flock
Fact
Fans
Know
" Certainly, Occupy Wall Street protesters have different ideas about the movement's mission. Many of the marchers I met even disagreed on the purpose of their trek - some thought it was about getting to Washington to protest the 'supercommittee'; others thought it was about visiting other Occupations. "
Elizabeth Flock
Thought
Ideas
Street
" What compels the Hindu right's volcanic reaction to Valentine's Day? Some of its members have protested that the holiday is the product of a 'rotten imported culture' from the West. "
Elizabeth Flock
Day
Product
Holiday
" The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse. "
Elizabeth Flock
System
Worse
Things