Sujay Kumar
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Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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A year like no other
Eviction Since March, the federal, state, and local versions of an eviction moratorium have kept thousands in their homes. While typically there are some 20,000 eviction cases filed every year, as of December 14, only about 6,600 eviction cases have been filed against Chicago residential and commercial tenants—and 65 percent of those cases were initiated before the governor issued his first… → Read More
What 'The Night Of' Gets Right About the Reality of Being Brown in America
A simple family dinner is the most revolutionary part of this gritty HBO series. → Read More
For Indian Americans, hate finally has a name: Trump
In a campaign dripping with explicit xenophobia, he’s mostly ignored us. But if you listen closely, he's said some things. → Read More
How American Sikhs became collateral damage in the war on terror
The earliest case of bigotry directed at Sikhs in America can be found in the forgotten Bellingham riots of 1907. → Read More
What are Ü sorry for? An evening of Justin Bieber finding his ‘Purpose’
The small Canadian anomaly looks for his "purpose." → Read More
Shaun King doesn’t care what race you think he is
The police brutality blogger says he is “trying to agitate America." It's working. → Read More
Chicago police shot a teenager 16 times – why haven’t we seen the body-cam footage yet?
Nine months have gone by since 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was fatally shot 16 times. → Read More
The everyday terror of Islamophobia in America
When Tigani Mohamoud bought a fixer-upper house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he remembered an adage from Sudan: know your neighbors. → Read More
Charleston shooting: Why proving a hate crime in court is so difficult
South Carolina is one of five states that do not have a hate crime law. → Read More
Summer in Chicago: Does the heat really make people violent?
This happens every year in Chicago: the temperatures rise, and so do the shootings. Must be the heat, right? → Read More
Why it's so hard to prove an anti-Muslim hate crime, in one chart
Three Muslim Americans were shot execution-style in their Chapel Hill home. → Read More
A twist in Chicago teen’s shooting: Officer and victim had met before
Officer Eric Hill was the closest thing the 17-year-old had to a friend while under arrest—a juvenile advocate charged with making sure the boy knew his rights. → Read More
'They took the whole thing as a joke': Why Rekia Boyd's killer went free
On the day of Rekia Boyd's funeral, her family was sent a box of her possessions: a yellow purse and a Ziploc bag full of bloody hair. → Read More
Why was this 17-year-old shot twice in the back by police?
Just five hours after Walter Scott was killed by a South Carolina police officer as he was running away unarmed, police in a Chicago suburb killed a boy named Justus with two shots to the back. → Read More
He served 20 years for a crime he didn't commit— and then 27 more hours for a broken sink
While serving 20 years in prison for a wrongful conviction, Angel Gonzalez painted: a lighthouse, a stream, a mountain, a blue truck, a snow-covered cabin in the woods. “Every time I painted something I felt like I was escaping away from the world, from prison,” Gonzalez told Fusion, hours after exiting Dixon Correctional Center in Illinois. → Read More
How Superhero Movies Lost Their Humanity
Too self-serious (The Dark Knight) or too bloated (The Avengers), the genre's last great film was Spider-Man 2. What happened? → Read More
Jeopardy! Champion Julia Collins’s Brain Feels Like Mush
Julia Collins battled past winners for ‘Jeopardy!’ supremacy at the Tournament of Champions. Unfortunately, she was also really sick. → Read More
Taylor Swift’s ‘Blank Space’: Hell Hath No Fury Like A Tay-Tay Scorned
“Blank Space” telegraphs a keen self-awareness of Taylor Swift’s caricature as a man-crazy psycho-bitch. → Read More
The Holy Grail of Comic Books Hid in Plain Site at New York Comic Con
The $3.2 million copy of ‘Action Comics No. 1’—the book that ushered in the golden age of superheroes in tights—sat almost unnoticed last weekend. What’s the world of fanboys coming to? → Read More
‘The Flash’ Review: Teen Angst Gets a Comic Book Quickie
With a superhero who gets in costume in the first five seconds, the CW show zips along blissfully like the first film in a big-budget franchise, flagging only when the speedster pauses. → Read More