The maul of america is caught up in a legal battle with protesters. Four leaders of black lives matters say they receive letters on friday threatening arrests if wednesday's rally takes place as planned inside the maul. They're trying to force us to something a that, you know, they don't really have the authority to do. So this is definitely not only an attack on black eyes matter, but on everybody's first amendment rights andn the right to speak out.
No teenager in America in the 1980s could avoid the gravitational pull of the mall, not even author Alexandra Lange. In her new book, Meet Me by the Fountain, Lange writes about how malls were conceptually born out of a lack of space for people to convene in American suburbs. Despite the fact indoor shopping malls are no longer in their heyday, malls have not gone away completely. Lange writes about the history of mall culture, and how the mall became a ubiquitous part of American life.
Meet Us by the Fountain