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Author: Prof Patty

  • Prof Patty
  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Powerful Words About Anger

Sharp-minded, large-spirited, incomparably brilliant Ursula K. Le Guin examines anger in an essay titled “About Anger,” found in her altogether fantastic nonfiction collection No

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  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Friendship

Powerful Bible Verses About Friendship By Jorie Nicole McDonald No matter if your friends are near or far, these encouraging Bible verses will help you feel connected with them in a new way. L

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  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Jazz San Javier

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  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Gladys, Patti and Dionne

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  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

THE FOREFATHERS OF HIP-HOP WERE POETS WHO GAVE BLACK AMERICA ITS VOICE

Posted by The Guardian | Aug 22, 2018 | Syndicated | It is half a century since the Last Poets stood in Harlem, uttered their first words in public, and created the blueprint for hip-hop. At

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  • September 24, 2020

The U.S. has billions of dollars in unclaimed property

Do you have unclaimed cash or property waiting for you? Approximately 1 in 10 people do!  Go HERE for state information, and HERE for federal information.

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  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

How To Manage Diabetes Costs

Hunt for cheaper medication and supplies. Go to Goodrx.com and read their guide to saving money on insulin. Eat like you have some sense. Instead of expensive, out of season strawberries,

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  • September 24, 2020

Do You Like Mushrooms?

When I buy mushrooms and can’t eat them all at once, sometimes they start getting slimy before I can use them. What to do? First, be sure that the ones you get are not slimy but really fresh. How

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  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Sugar-Crusted Apple Cobbler

From King Arthur Baking Company (with my changes) PREP 20 mins; BAKE 35 to 40 mins; TOTAL 2 hrs 10 mins; YIELD one 8″ square or 9″ round cobbler Ingredients 4 medium-to-large baking app

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  • September 24, 2020

Hispanic Heritage Month Starts Today

Today (9/15/20) marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month and with less than two months until Election Day, attention is on Latino voters. One study found that Latinos will be the larges

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  • September 24, 2020

A Maryland suburb known for a slaveholding past confronts its racist present

By Ovetta Wiggins September 15, 2020 at 3:37 p.m. EDT Two years before George Floyd’s killing forced a reckoning with American racism, Jordan Keemer was in his high school government cl

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  • September 24, 2020

Senior Trump Aide Goes On Deranged Rant (UPDATE)

UPDATE: Michael R. Caputo, the top spokesman of the Department of Health and Human Services, will take a leave of absence “to focus on his health and the well-being of his family,” the departme

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  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Stanley Crouch, Critic Who Saw American Democracy in Jazz, Dies at 74

Stanley Crouch, the fiercely iconoclastic social critic who elevated the invention of jazz into a metaphor for the indelible contributions that Black people have made to American democracy, died on

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  • September 24, 2020

Cook’s Country Gets a New Editor, Toni Tipton-Martin

By Kim Severson Sept. 15, 2020 Toni Tipton-Martin, the longtime food editor and writer whose books “The Jemima Code” and “Jubilee” redefined the story of Black cooks in America, w

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  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Barbados a Republic?

LONDON — The Caribbean island nation of Barbados announced this week that it is time to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become a republic. Barbados, a former colony of Bri

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Dance Theater of Harlem

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  • What Democrats Can Do Now to Lower Costs
  • Nithya Raman Wins Los Angeles Mayoral Race, Defeating Karen Bass
  • Late Night Finds Trump Supporters Jumping Ship

Samara Joy

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  • Oyster stocks have plunged in the Chesapeake. This resident wants to bring them back
  • This week in science: mysterious X-rays, movement and learning, and memory formation
  • Even birds get jet lagged, study shows
  • When an invasive fish is also tasty, Maryland schoolkids can help 'eat the problem'
  • How AI is transforming hurricane forecasts

Sneak Peak

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  • In Delhi, Indians Confront the Cost of Dissent
  • A Joyous Election in Michigan
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  • On the House

Jon Batiste

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  • In Kansas, Both Sides Twist the Facts in Accusations of Protecting Pedophiles
  • Talarico Ad Omits Details of Crystal Mason’s Illegal Voting Case
  • Explaining the Case of the Two Dan Sullivans on Alaska’s Ballot

Club Shay Shay

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  • Massie said he'll bring back impeachment articles against Hegseth. Here's what would happen next
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Billy Porter and India.Irie

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  • How Democrats’ Big Win Could Reshape Health Care
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Marcus D Wiley

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  • Erratic and Corrupt
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