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Life Stories (page 249)

The Life Stories section features insightful commentary and essays about the human experience from Salon.

Michelle Obama, Angela Davis (AP/Susan Walsh/Reuters/Mark Blinch)

Strong. Black. Woman.

Tamara Winfrey Harris
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1152125p1.html'>Shahril KHMD</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My scary side of parenting

Dawn Turzio

A sex writer's greatest hits

Tracy Clark-Flory
Lt. Samuel Battle gets a kiss from his granddaughter Yvonne, at City Hall in New York, Sept. 4, 1941. (AP)

New York's first black cop

Arthur Browne
(<a href='url to photographer'>Rawpixel</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Summer will kill us all

Joanna Rothkopf
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-454414p1.html'>Patryk Kosmider</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/AP/Carolyn Kaster/Blizzard Entertainment)

Trolling the dude-bro Internet

Matt Saccaro

TMOT: Candice Kumai

Candice Kumai as told to Salon
Christine, Nathan and Vicki Collier (TLC)

A "polyfam" fight

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Jenny Kutner
Jim Carrey (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

Carrey's reckless rants

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A helicopter flies over the Ocean Crest Pier in Oak Island, N.C., Monday, June 15, 2015. A 12-year-old girl from Asheboro lost part of her arm and suffered a leg injury, and a 16-year-old boy from Colorado lost his left arm about an hour later and 2 miles away in two separate shark attacks late Sunday afternoon. (AP/Chuck Burton)

Joanna Rothkopf
(Wikimedia Commons)

Jenny Kutner
(AP/Todd Williamson)

Anne Thériault - The Daily Dot
(Whole Foods/YouTube)

Joanna Rothkopf
Jim Carrey (AP/Dennis Van Tine)

Jim Carrey, dangerous idiot

Sean Illing
Parade viewers cheer at the 41st annual Pride Parade Sunday, June 28, 2015, in Seattle. (AP/Elaine Thompson)

Outrage changed the world

Arthur Chu
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-64260p1.html'>Syda Productions</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Condoms are so 100 years ago

Valerie Tarico
(AP/Jim Ross)

Native Americans who aren't

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1298464p1.html'>Lapina Maria</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Joanna Rothkopf
Mike Huckabee (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Joanna Rothkopf
Jim Carrey (Reuters/Danny Moloshok)

Carrye's anti-vax freakout

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1071929p1.html'>leonori</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Joanna Rothkopf
(Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

Jenny Kutner
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-522076p1.html'>In Tune</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

I am a recovering racist

Jonathan Odell
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