The term was originally coined in a political cartoon drawn in 1812. The then Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts helped to enact a law that defined new state senatorial districts. The outline of one of the districts was said to resemble a salamander. Cartoonist Elkanah Tisdale, at the Boston Gazette then drew a picture of…
Read More What is gerrymandering?The aptly named Pride was a symbol of Black pride back in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s when he was the first major Black country artist to hit the charts. Coming on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, Pride won Male Vocalist of the Year two years running in 1971 and 1972, in addition…
Read More Charley Pride Receives Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at CMAWe turn out reliably every election. But you can’t just vote white supremacy away. [Sister girl is speaking for me here. I can’t say it any better.] By Taylor Crumpton November 7, 2020 at 11:45 a.m. EST Black women saved Joe Biden. Without our support, the president-elect would be preparing a powerful speech about how despite…
Read More Black women saved the Democrats. Don’t make us do it again.Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf and Will Mullery, CNN Updated 9:25 AM ET, Wed November 4, 2020 What happens after Election Day We’ve sketched out the legal mechanisms that lead from Election Day to Inauguration Day. Next to each item below is an icon that denotes whether state laws or federal laws are relevant. Read HERE.
Read More Here’s how long states have to count votes, according to federal lawYale professor Marcella Nunez-Smith to co-chair Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force. Nunez-Smith is an associate professor of internal medicine, public health, and management with a focus on healthcare equity. She will be joined as task force co-chair by Dr. David Kessler, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San…
Read More Good NewsBy Aaron Feis November 5, 2020 When Inauguration Day rolls around on Jan. 20, if Trump has exhausted his legal challenges and physically refuses to leave the White House premises, Biden said in June that he was “absolutely convinced” the military would remove Trump “with great dispatch.” But Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NPR last month that…
Read More What happens if Trump refuses to concede the 2020 election?Some Democratic voters are nervous — and a number of Republican voters, alongside the president, are hopeful — that the results of the presidential election aren’t really the results and that somehow court challenges to the vote count will make President Trump the winner. The likelihood of that is almost nil. Here’s why: The Trump…
Read More The 5-Minute FixCleaning products ordered online were never delivered to consumers by Katherine Skiba, AARP, November 6, 2020 Twenty-five websites that allegedly tricked people into paying thousands of dollars for Clorox and Lysol products that were not delivered have been temporarily shut down. Some people instead were shipped a pair of socks and had difficulties when seeking refunds,…
Read More FTC Goes After 25 ‘Counterfeit’ Websites Claiming to Sell Lysol, CloroxBy Megan Brooks The study revealed evidence of “neural polarization” ― activity in the brain that differs between people who hold liberal vs conservative political views, the researchers report. Neural polarization intensified when videos included risk-related and moral-emotional language, highlighting content most likely to drive interpretations between conservatives and liberals, they note. For a given…
Read More Imaging Shows the Brain Drives Political DividesThe change is the result of a 2019 Change.org petition to update the definition, because it was pretty sexist. The petition was started by London-based communications strategist Maria Beatrice Giovanardi, and received over 30,000 signatures. According to the petition, the Oxford Dictionary contained words that were “sexist” and “show women as sex objects, subordinate, and/or an irritation to…
Read More The Oxford Dictionary just updated its definition of ‘woman’ to make it less sexist(how long did it take?)