THRU Magazine Archive
The United States holds 25% of the world’s prison population with over two million incarcerated individuals. African-Americans represent about 13% of the U.S. population, but are incarcerated at six times the rate of white Americans, according to the NAACP. At face value, any politician can use these statistics as a sweeping indictment against African-Americans, the contentious […]
Family Values and the Workforce Participation Rate This morning, I read about Jeb Bush and his recent comment that, “workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows.” So in order for us to achieve his demand that we grow the economy by 4% annually, “people need to work longer hours and through their […]
On Sunday, the manhunt ended in upstate New York, only now is the story unfolding. About two miles from Canada, the survivor of the two fleeing prisoners, David Sweat was shot in the torso as he ran through a field, headed once again for the woods. A state trooper, seeing that Sweat was nearing the […]
Last Wednesday, I was privileged to witness an informal performance titled “Cuerpo Migrante” (Migrant Body) by La Barbacoa Danza Contemporanea, a modest dance troupe hailing from Morelia, Mexico. We met at Performance Works NW, a speakeasy of a dance studio, located in the quaint residential area of Southeast Portland’s Foster-Powell neighborhood. Here we became a […]
Day 2 The morning of Sunday, February 22nd began with Kate and myself around 7 AM, waking up in our cozy double-mattress at Green Tortoise Hostel, and a somewhat rude awakening of club music outside, coming from the club across the street. It had been thumping until closing hours but resumed thumping at legal opening […]