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Journalist. I have worked everywhere. Aspiring Queen of Queens. Mama to 2 kids, 2 books, 1 mutt. Check out epicenter-nyc.com & url-media.com

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Blasting ICE on socials isn’t enough. What New York needs to know — and DO

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By S. Mitra Kalita Verified
| Epicenter-NYC Verified
A friend of mine in Europe recently remarked that many people survived the Holocaust because someone took action to protect them. The histories are not interchangeable. The obligation to save one another is. New York, we are here. On Thursday afternoon, an ICE officer shot Oscar Belgal in the neck in Marble Hill while his 5-year-old son was in his car. Belgal survived. The child was not physically injured. Two heartbreaking realizations I’ve had in recent months came to a head with this incident.
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Following the Political Money

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By S. Mitra Kalita Verified
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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Los Angeles is in the midst of a political shake-up. A Berkeley–LA Times poll last week showed an increasingly tight race between Karen Bass, the sitting mayor, and her challenger Nithya Raman, a Democratic Socialist member of the city council, who is leading by eleven points. A third of voters are still undecided—and that’s the story that made national deadlines.
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Despite all the attempts on our lives, New York will never die

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By S. Mitra Kalita Verified
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Everyone talks about the sky on 9/11 — how big and blue and perfect it was, only to be filled with smoke and terror. We remember the enormity of the day: the towers, the fire, the flyers of the missing, the long lists of names. I think we do a disservice by focusing only on scale. What I remember most are the little things. I list them now so as to, as the saying goes, never forget. I had a dentist appointment. The hygienist turned on Univision, and we both gasped as the towers fell.
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