By Ava Wallace September 12, 2020 at 7:45 p.m. EDT The newly minted 2020 U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka wore seven different masks for her seven matches this year in New York, each sporting the name of a victim of violence. Osaka, who was born to a Japanese mother and Haitian father, has fielded questions for two weeks about…
Read More U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka let her masks do the talking.By Chris Richards September 12, 2020 at 2:15 p.m. EDT During “Funky Kingston” — that golden-hot sunbeam of a song that Toots and the Maytals first dropped in 1973 — the word “reggae” becomes a sort of hyper-noun: a person, a place and a thing. Hibbert died in Kingston on Friday, 9/11/20, at 77. Read more HERE and HERE.
Read More Toots Hibbert helped give reggae its name, its sound, and its enduring graceBecause much cancer research and clinical trials have been based on white populations, efforts to explore the ways race and ethnicity influence disease are underway. By Emma Goldberg Sept. 11, 2020 The Genome Center’s two-year-old initiative, called Polyethnic-1000, is aimed at closing the knowledge gap that exists largely because decades of genetic studies focused mainly on white patient…
Read More Cancer Projects to Diversify Genetic Research Receive New GrantsThis morning, I got a call from 844-348-3391 saying that I owed money to Eversource. (I have never had an Eversource account, but do have a CT phone number.) So I called the number. It started off with one of those “if you speak Spanish press” statements. Then a person came on the line and…
Read More Beware of ScamsBy Laura Collins-Hughes Published Sept. 2, 2020 Updated Sept. 3, 2020 Originally scheduled to be performed in April at the Hammerstein Ballroom, this year’s “Miscast” has gone virtual, streaming for free on Sunday, Sept. 13, on MCC’s YouTube channel. It is available on YouTube until 9/17 (this is a fundraiser). The boldface lineup includes, among others, Joshua Henry, Adrienne Warren, Norbert Leo Butz, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., and Beanie Feldstein.…
Read More When the Wrong Singer for the Song Is Just So RightJason Moran (born January 21, 1975) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator involved in multimedia art and theatrical installations. Moran recorded first with Greg Osby and debuted as a bandleader with the 1999 album Soundtrack to Human Motion. Since then, he has released albums with his trio The Bandwagon, solo, as a sideman,…
Read More Jason MoranWhy should I go to that cemetery ( Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris)? It’s filled with losers. Donald J Trump (Speaking to President Trump) You have sacrificed nothing and no one. Khizr Kahn, Gold Star father Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members…
Read More The latest kerfuffleIn a blog post attributed to Jessica A. Krug, the associate professor at George Washington University said she’s claimed a Black identity throughout her career. A blog post attributed to a history professor at George Washington University stated that she had assumed a Black identity for much of her career, despite being White. The post…
Read More White GWU professor admits she falsely claimed Black identityIt is just about impossible to talk about the really important stuff in politics without using terms that have become such awful clichés they make your eyes glaze over and are hard to even hear. One such term is “leader,” which all the big candidates use all the time — as in e.g. “providing leadership,”…
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