How Dollar Stores Are Crushing Already-Struggling Communities
Citing crime and lack of good food options, some towns are telling Dollar General and others they're not wanted
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The Death of New York City Is Clickbait
Anyone who said NY was dead after Covid-19 arrived wasn’t a…
Gentrification Is a Five-Course Meal — and the Indigestion is Horrible
Hope you’ve got an appetite…
Can A 71-Year-Old Corner Store in San Antonio Survive This Pandemic?
The sisters who’ve carried on the store their parents built, Cardenas Grocery, adapt and adapt in a community that often forgets them
Amid a Pandemic and Racial Reckoning, Atlanta’s Corner Stores Are Community Cornerstones
When Carver Neighborhood Market was vandalized earlier this year, patrons rallied to support the grocer that offers fresh produce in one…
Can This Man Save Chicago’s Murder Epidemic?
With decades of brokering peace between gangs, community leader Bishop Omar Jahwar has a plan for quelling violence in the perilous city
Two cities start the reparations conversation — will the country follow?
Welcome to Minority Report, a weekly newsletter from the LEVEL team that packs an entire week into a single email. From the long road to…
The Unintentional Racism Found in Traffic Signals
Just because something doesn’t use an offensive mascot doesn’t mean it can’t reinforce a broken system
What June’s Never-Ending Fireworks Say About This Country
I’m sleep-deprived. You’re selfish. Whoever’s behind this is playing us both.
Bill de Blasio Is Feeling the Heat. Good, Let’s Turn It Up
Once a presidential hopeful, New York’s…
What We Should Have Learned From the L.A. Riots
As the director of a documentary on the Rodney King…
The 6 Worst Cities to Spend Memorial Day Weekend, Ranked
Even if you could go anywhere you wanted, why would you choose any of these spots?
The Brief New Normal of a Reopened Houston Strip Club
Club Onyx fought the law to open its doors again…
We Deserve Better Than Biden — But Cuomo Isn’t the Answer
Yes, the New York governor has been killing…
How Rappers and Record Studios Are Coping With the Pandemic
From Airbnb workarounds to clandestine masked sessions, the music world is pressing on