Carnival Fresh Market opened three years ago in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn. Credit Ryan C. Jones for The New York Times
From the outside, Carnival Fresh Market looks like any other corner produce store. Crates filled with onions, peaches and four-for-$5 mangoes sit stacked, end to end, under a red-and-yellow striped awning. Just inside this three-year-old shop in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, however, a United Nations of foodstuffs awaits. Here in the bulk bins are blue-black Uzbeki raisins and nuggets of chocolate-dipped halvah. There in the dairy case, cheese selections range from a briny nabulsi, popular in the Middle East, to rounds of Bulgarian kashkaval and sliced kosher provolone.
Finding love is part willingness and part geography: You can only be so determined to have a happily ever after; your zip code has to meet you halfway. As of 2015, about 109 million, or 45 percent, of the U.S. adult population are single, including the individual components of the now-defunct Brangelina. (Yes, they are Hollywood A-listers who may never even know your name, let alone that you exist. But dreams can come true, right?)
Following a divisive presidential election campaign, more than 700 Islamophobic and racist harassment or intimidation events were reported. The Southern Poverty Law Center has published research on hate crimes covering a week after Trump was elected as U.S. president. The report also noted that there were numerous verbal harassment or intimidation cases targeting Muslims, politicians, Jews and some other ethnic and religious backgrounds. The U.S. Justice Department has investigated whether recent reports of intimidation and harassment, including in schools and at churches, violate federal hate crime and other civil rights laws.
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