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Building a bond through art

01 May 2007

In response to the disproportionate amount of minorities in the United States prison system’s inmate population, particularly those from the Latino community, visual artist and Temple art professor Pepon Osorio crafted Badge of Honor in

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A rare and special case

01 May 2007

Kaddish Poznan is a failure, an utter, complete miserable failure. But he is also a determined failure, a proud failure, and above all else, a lovable failure. He has already suffered through years of failure,

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The Writing on the Wall

01 May 2007

He tagged an elephant in the Philadelphia Zoo, and an airplane carrying the Jackson Five after it landed in Philadelphia. His wall name is “Cornbread,” the Philadelphia graffitist who started a movement that defines the

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Part Two: Anything for change

01 May 2007

(Orginally published in the 3/13 issue) Before witnessing a slit throat and the behind-the-scheme tactics of the city hustlers that night, I sat on a New Jersey Transit bus, thumbing through unread pages of Dostoevsky’s