For African-American travelers in the Jim Crow-era South—often journeying from the north to visit relatives who had not joined the Great Migration—an unprepossessing paper-bound travel guide often amounted to a survival kit. The Green Book often functioned as a lifesaver.
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Daily Archives: March 30, 2016
7 Style Rules to Break This Spring
This Man Pays $508 Per Month to Live in a—Literal—Box in San Francisco
What would you do if you couldn’t afford to pay rent in the city of your dreams?
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A Traveler’s Favorite Places to Photograph
It seems that I developed my wanderlust while still in utero. My mother was a British flight attendant for Pan Am, and travel was a part of my life from the time I was an infant. Once my younger brother and I were old enough, my mother would take us to the airport as a recreational activity. We’d sit on the hood of the car, eating long straps of black licorice, and watch the planes take off. I loved the smell of jet fuel.
Tidal has 3 million subscribers a year after Jay Z’s takeover
This week marks a year since Jay Z and a lineup of big-name artists took over Tidal, touting a library of exclusive content and a lossless audio option. In the 12 months since Mr. Carter & Co. took control, the streaming service amassed 3 million subscribers, up from the first million the company announced last fall. There’s no doubt exclusive releases, especially Kayne West’s The Life of Pablo, gave those paid plans a boost, but Tidal still has a lot of work to do if it wants to catch Spotify and Apple Music.
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The SAT Has Been Hacked
The SAT, the standardized test taken by high school seniors to burnish their college applications, was administered nearly 1.7 million times last year. The test’s popularity within college admissions is based, in part, on the perception of fairness: As any recent test-taker is well aware, it is extremely difficult to cheat the SAT.
The Utah Jazz Handed Kobe Bryant the Worst Loss of His Career Last Night
20 years in the league. 1,338 games. And Kobe Bryant had never been spanked as thoroughly as he was last night in Utah. Los Angeles fell to 15-59 with their 123-75 loss. The bloated deficit also tied for the biggest beating the Lakers have ever taken in the history of their franchise, matching a game from March 2014 against the Clippers where Mamba didn’t play, as he was lucky enough to have fractured his knee.
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