Let America Be America: Community In A Cafe

July 11, 2012

Let America Be America: Community In A Cafe

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Andy Shallal has big ideas for a group of cozy cafes in the Washington D.C. region. He set out to bring different groups together by offering a space for political discourse, as well as a bookstore and a great room in which poets are welcome to perform. His project is called Busboys and

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