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from AAUW.com Equal Pay Day denotes how far into the new year women must work to be paid what men were paid the previous year. Started by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996, the goal was to raise awareness about the gender wage gap. Since then, other Equal Pay Days have been…

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Andrea Mantovani   The 400+ year old Japanese art of kintsugi (golden repair) or kintsukuroi (golden joinery) is a pottery repair method that honors the artifact’s unique history by emphasizing, not hiding, the break. According to art historians, kintsugi came about accidentally (well, it does fit). When the 15th-century shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa broke his favorite tea bowl, he sent it to China…

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The Second Amendment consists of just one sentence: “A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The Brennan Center for Justice writes, “Today, scholars debate its bizarre comma placement, trying to make sense of the various clauses,…

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BY JOANE AMAY April 8, 2020 Decoding your curl type can be confusing. Several different textures can exist on one head alone (talking about my hair – K) which all have to somehow look cohesive when you style it. Plus, there’s been some debate as to whether the typing system, originally started by hairstylist Andre Walker and modified by folks in…

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On internet privacy, be very afraid Limit the personal information you share on social media. Turn on two-factor authentication especially for important accounts. Browse in incognito or private mode. Use a different search engine like DuckDuckGo or Qwant (go HERE) Before clicking on suspicious links, hover your cursor over the link to view the destination URL. If…

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By Washington Post Staff Henrietta Wood After the Civil War, Wood made history by pursuing an audacious lawsuit against the man who had kidnapped her back into slavery. Joy Harjo Harjo is the 23rd poet laureate of the United States. A member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, she is the first Native American to hold the position. “Everyone wants…

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