Bagel Bytes

aka bagel is to me just a carb.

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The Oklahoma City Thunder’s Halal Guys

Enes Kanter has started a halal food craze that has absorbed the Thunder’s locker room after road games—and stocked it with lamb platters and chicken kebabs.

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In Oakland, a Team and a City on the Verge of Gentrification | VICE Sports

The Golden State Warriors meant a lot to Bay Area sports fans even before they were the future of basketball, but it's hard to know where the team or the game or the city will be by the time they move to San Francisco.

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Oscar Grant. Eric Garner. John Crawford III. Tamir Rice. Walter Scott. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile.

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VICELAND Will Make First Foray Into Daily Late Night Talk Show with Debut of 'Desus & Mero'

As the Emmy-nominated newcomer cable network VICELAND reaches its six-month mark, the network leadership announces a number of new projects.

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A prayer for Mecca: the city that many hajj pilgrims don't see – video

As the hajj begins once again, Saudi artist Ahmed Mater has revealed unprecedented changes to the holy city – from flashy new hotels to the loss of priceless neighbourhoods

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Baltimore Apartheid: Introduction

This is the introduction to the lecture Baltimore Apartheid: The White L vs. the Black Butterfly. This lecture is delivered by Lawrence Brown, PhD, professor...

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Exclusive: How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down

In a searing investigation into the once lauded biotech start-up Theranos, Nick Bilton discovers that its precocious founder defied medical experts—even her own chief scientist—about the veracity of its now discredited blood-testing technology.

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PNL’s World Or Nothing

A French duo ushers in a new era of rap that speaks to the whole globe.

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Lowrys miracle halfcourt shot

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The racism in medical education cannot be ignored

If I truly believed that my superiors were irrevocably racist, writing this essay would be of little use.

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How ‘Empowerment’ Became Something for Women to Buy

The corporate vision of female strength profits from the same old power dynamics.

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The Internet Really Has Changed Everything. Here’s the Proof. — Backchannel

A writer returns to his hometown — once isolated, now connected — to conduct an experiment and answer the unanswerable

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Meet Somali-British Poet Warsan Shire Featured On Beyoncé's LEMONADE

"You are terrifying and strange and beautiful."

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April 2016 Favorites playlist. includes old stuff (santigold, broken bells) but mostly newer (drake, kendrick, kanye, oddisee, majid jordan, zayn, ferg) 

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On “Muslim” Issues: Choosing Humanity

By Hiba Akhtar Someone texted a friend of mine a few weeks ago looking for khutbah topics. “Flint,” she replied. It seemed obvious. We live in a country in which elected representatives of a state have actively and quietly made the decision to harm their own residents by forcing them to consume and bathe in…