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Juwayriah Wright

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Juwayriah is a journalist and editorial producer at TIME Magazine, where she's covered Muslim life in America, polio vaccination campaigns overseas, infanticide, and other atrocities afflicting the Muslim world.

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The Food Section •

Welcome to Halalabama - The Food Section

When I spoke to the founder of one of Alabama’s most renowned halal food trucks, he apologized for not being able to give our conversation his full attention: he was in the middle of making strawberry barbecue sauce to pair with lamb ribs. Ashurah Ali Mustaqeem carefully curates his rolling menu—including curried oxtails, Caribbean jerk chicken, and agave-glazed fried chicken and waffles—so every item registers as boundary-pushing and deeply rooted in the cultural fusion of Alabama’s South.
WNYC Studios •

Lessons from the Luddites | On the Media

BROOKE GLADSTONE This is On the Media, I'm Brooke Gladstone. Ann Helen-Petersen and Charlie Warzel showed how the tech that was supposed to liberate office workers has trapped them instead into an endless cycle of performative tasks. But that's just a piece of that picture. Gavin Mueller, who teaches media studies at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, says tech has changed the relationship between workers and work in countless ways and rarely with the worker in mind. But we don't al

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WNYC Studios •

Take This Job and Shove It | On the Media

Take This Job and Shove It

BROOKE GLADSTONE This week and every week On the Media is a labor of love. But this week it's also a love letter to labor.. .

NEWS CLIP More than twenty five million people quit their jobs in the first seven months of this year, and it is now being called the great resignation. [END CLIP]

ANN HELEN-PETERSEN That office, historically, it's been very good and convincing you that your life is actually the time that you spend in that office. So what happens when that ce
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