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The call of the American Dream is powerful. We all want to believe that it is possible to achieve that dream, that success is just a pair of bootstraps away.But is it, really?Shawn Blanchard’s very existence seems to suggest that it is.The very model of a self-made man, Blanchard came from humble beginnings: he was born in 1982, at the beginning of the crack epidemic, with crack...
The stories have been the same for many years now: we’ve seen countless pieces trying to get to the bottom of why Silicon Valley is so white and so male, a growing alarm at the gentrification of San Francisco and sober looks at pay inequality based on gender in America’s most forward-looking industry.To show that they acknowledge and are working on the problem, tech...
One thing Ivy Sole is very good at is cutting to the quick of what unites us.We featured the video for her song “Life” not long ago — and on that track, she delved into depression, exploring what it is like to struggle with bad days. We all have days that are all doom and gloom, and something else that we’re all familiar with is the search for a home.Who...
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