This is a really good, concise video about #blacklivesmatter, taking apart 4 common arguments against the movement, created by Franchesca Ramsey and MTV News Decoded. Share it with your friends and family. (via) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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“The Handmaid’s Tale is more relevant today, we’re further down the track.”
Margaret Atwood sat down for a great interview with Literary Hub’s Grant Munroe. They talked about the Hulu series based on The Handmaid’s Tale, Donald Trump, Salem witch trials, paper books and vinyl coming back, birds and housecats, and her numerous projects, including an upcoming novel based on Shakespear’s The Tempest. Here is just one of …
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It’s like ‘Isn’t it great if we invest in these community college students and they use our housing to get their degree and then they’ll never need our housing again?‘ From a ThinkProgress article about how unnecessary paperwork leaves homeless college students behind, e.g. by creating extra barriers when having to verify their homelessness every …
And if you don’t want to debate me, maybe we can arm wrestle. …is now something a semi-legitimate candidate for U.S. congress says, with the support of a former governor and VP candidate.
Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight – The Washington Post
Trump’s America.Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight – The Washington Post
Because of his position, disposition and bipartisan popularity, Judge Garland has been on Mr. Obama’s shortlist of potential nominees for years. In 2010, when Mr. Obama interviewed him for the slot that he instead gave to Justice Elena Kagan, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, said publicly that he had urged Mr. Obama to …
Woody Guthrie Despised His Landlord Fred Trump – Donald’s Father
No real surprise there – it’s safe to assume that the hard-travellin’ leftist folk radical had little sympathy for a New York real estate capitalist. It’s still interesting to read the piece over at Gawker, as the story sheds some light on the racism at the core of the Trump empire:“What Guthrie discovered all too …
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Cruz: Letting Muslim Syrian Refugees Into The U.S. Is ‘Crazy’
The junior senator from Texas, born in Canada to a father who immigrated from Cuba in the 1950s, is the latest GOP candidate to claim that a significant number of those fleeing from a civil war are actually sleeper terrorists. For what it’s worth I think that rhetoric like this is neither democratic nor Christian …
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“The Gray Complexity that is the Real Dixie”
Errin Whack,in an article for NPR’s Code Switch blog, reviews Harper Lee’s new novel Go Set A Watchman and argues that it is a revelation on race, even if that is uncomfortable for many fans of To Kill A Mockingbird:Truths can be hard, and truths about race in this country are often the hardest – especially when the revelations …
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This idea of “ruining,” or really, “changing” Cuba, felt condescending and arrogant, erasing the Cuban people from their own narrative. Since the founding of the United States, when Thomas Jefferson’s “candidly confessed[ed]” his desire to colonize the island nation to the moment when Americans “celebrated” Cuba’s independence from Spain—and then proceeded to exploit the country’s …
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