What is antifa and how does it relate to the season of protests? By Erica Evans@Erica_Lee_Evans Updated Sep 2, 2020, 10:05 pm MDT Today in the United States, antifa, which is short for anti-fascists, is known as a very loose collection of individuals and groups who aggressively oppose far-right movements, mainly focusing on white supremacists, neo-Nazis or other…
Read More What is antifa?How can we put our funds where our mouths are? By spending with those who are ethical, who support causes that are important to us, and who don’t support things we would rather not spend our money on. Do you know which politicians your fast food dollars support? What about the big box hardware store?…
Read More Ethical, Socially Conscious ShoppingBY GOODBLACKNEWS ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 According to jbhe.com, Dr. Namandjé Bumpus was appointed chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Bumpus is the first African-American woman to chair an academic department at the highly-rated medical school and the only Black woman currently chairing a pharmacology department at any…
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Read More Rest in PeaceCOVID-19 Is Transmitted Through Aerosols. We Have Enough Evidence, Now It Is Time to Act BY JOSE-LUIS JIMENEZ AUGUST 25, 2020 7:00 AM EDT Jimenez is a Professor of Chemistry and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He is a highly cited researcher and a Fellow of…
Read More COVID-19 InfoI wanted to reduce my lemon cake recipe to make enough servings for the two of us, instead of the large bundt cake we were accustomed to. I asked my friend Marianne to give the challenge to her son Eli who homeschools her grandchildren Nina and Mat. Here is the result. Bravo! Dear (Wild Cooking…
Read More Lemon CakeToday, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a federal eviction moratorium that protects renters from being evicted for nonpayment of rent during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To be protected, qualified renters facing eviction should immediately provide a signed declaration to their landlords. Please see the resources below from the National Low Income Housing Coalition with details on the moratorium,…
Read More National Eviction Moratorium Takes Effect TodayNational Museum of African American History and Culture to Honor March on Washington 37th Anniversary Via Free Online Films & IG Posts The resource webpage is available at nmaahc.si.edu/marchonwashington.
Read More March on Washington 37th AnniversaryA shadow of hunger looms over the United States. In the pandemic economy, nearly one in eight households doesn’t have enough to eat. The lockdown, with its epic lines at food banks, has revealed what was hidden in plain sight: that the struggle to make food last long enough, and to get food that’s healthful —…
Read More Food InsecurityBy Margaret Sullivan Media columnist August 29, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Daniel Dale met President Trump’s convention speech with a tirade of truth Thursday night — a tour de force of fact-checking that left CNN anchor Anderson Cooper looking slightly stunned. The cable network’s resident fact-checker motored through at least 21 falsehoods and misstatements he had found…
Read More Fact-checking Trump’s lies is essential. It’s also increasingly fruitless.