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The Guardian — 'Worse than Jim Crow': black politicians try to halt Mississippi's anti-LGBT law

Errick and Derrick Simmons say House Bill 1523 could lead to the kind of discrimination and violence their parents remember from the Jim Crow era in Mississippi. The brothers are urging their conservative, southern black community to speak out against the state’s new anti-LGBT religious freedom law before it goes into effect on 1 July

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The Guardian —'Something to do with breakfast?': New Yorkers discuss UK Brexit

On 23 June, the UK will vote on whether to leave the European Union. The campaign to leave has been dubbed ‘Brexit’ – a pithy portmanteau derived from the words ‘Britain’ and ‘exit’ – and is dominating the news in Europe. But what do New Yorkers make of the debate? And can they even decipher what the Brexit is?

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The Village Voice —Snowflakes: A Ride-Along with a New York Private Eye

"People are like snowflakes," says private detective Michael McKeever. The son and grandson of New York City police officers, McKeever, upon graduating from college, decided he wasn't "cut out for the grizzly side of life." Instead, he hunts down cheating spouses, does surveillance in fraud cases and looks for people who have gone missing.

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The Guardian — Love and choosing death

Steve Goldenberg sued New York to legalize assisted suicide, but it's unlikely he'll live to see the outcome. “If I get to see spring, I’ll be lucky,” Goldenberg said. If throat cancer doesn’t end his life, complications from diabetes or many illnesses related to AIDS will, he said. He wants his doctor to prescribe life-ending medication in case the pain becomes unbearable.

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Inside a jail school trying to treat kids like scholars not criminals

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