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Marvel Comics #1Marvel Comics #1

In 1984 and 1985, my friend Aldo Carrasco worked for a textile importer in New York. He was responsible for telex communication with European companies. He also used the telex machine to…A telex from Aldo

Marvel’s Greatest Comics #95Marvel’s Greatest Comics #95

Keith Woods, Dean of Faculty at The Poynter Institute, in a PBS NewsHour discussion of how race has figured in media coverage of the current primaries: You know, when you look at a lot of the… Keith Woods on media and race

“My students were very bully-ish, very aggressive, and very disrespectful. They’d argue with your ideas.” Priya Venkatesan, who taught English at Dartmouth College, is “threatening to sue her…Professor threatens to sue students

Jimmy Olsen #103Jimmy Olsen #103

From this morning’s New York Times: Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state… Mildred Loving (1939-2008)

JKottke, a loyal MR reader, asks: Is taking a photo or video of an event for later viewing worth it, even if it means more or less missing the event in realtime? What’s better, a lifetime of… When should you take photographs?