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Author: Prof Patty

  • Prof Patty
  • October 7, 2020October 7, 2020

Academia

Interested in going back to college or uni? Need Money? Check out Academia and find humanities and social science grants and fellowships HERE. Don’t you want your PhD? We found 855 humanitie

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  • October 7, 2020

Old Fashioned Southern Style Fig Preserves

An heirloom recipe handed down from my great aunt Corinne from Ozark, AL (1905-1997). From momlovesbaking.com Prep Time 20 minutes Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes Total Time 1 hour 50 minut

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  • October 7, 2020

Our 31 Best Fig Recipes

You know I love, love, love figs. Food & Wine has a plethora of fig recipes. 13 Fig Recipes to Make the Most While They’re Fresh & Ripe … 27 Best Fig Recipes from Figgy Toast

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  • October 7, 2020October 7, 2020

7 key takeaways from the Lindsey Graham, Jaime Harrison debate

Carol Motsinger Greenville News Oct. 4, 2020 Overall, decorum returned to the political debate stage on Saturday as Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic challenger Jamie Harriso

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  • October 7, 2020October 7, 2020

Trump returns to White House and removes mask despite having Covid

By Kevin Liptak and Maeve Reston, CNN Updated 7:40 PM ET, Mon October 5, 2020 (CNN) President Donald Trump staged a reckless departure from Walter Reed National Military Medical Ce

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  • October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

Now what?

Google searches for “25th Amendment,” the part of the U.S. Constitution about the presidential line of succession, spiked shortly after Mr. Trump’s announcement. And legal experts h

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 4, 2020

Low Income People Hardest Hit by COVID-19

Economic fallout from COVID-19 continues to hit lower-income Americans the hardest About six months into the pandemic, many Americans continue to face deep financial hardship. Among lower-inco

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  • October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

How did Various News Outlets Treat Trump Tax Return News?

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  • October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

California Creates Reparations Proposals

California Becomes 1st U.S. State to Create Proposals for Reparations to Descendants of Enslaved People Read more at Good Black News.

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  • October 4, 2020

New Director of African American Museum

The Smithsonian Institution has announced that poet Kevin Young will be the next director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Young is currently director

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  • October 4, 2020

Another Breonna Taylor, Almost?

Texas college campus police storm the dorm room of sleeping black cheerleader, 17, at 3am after students – including her three white roommates – falsely reported that she threatened to stab the

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  • October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

Debate?

It is what it is because you are who you are. Joe Biden Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. Donald Trump The main takeaway is that the debate didn’t alter the race. UBS’s Paul Donovan wro

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  • October 4, 2020

Apple Cream Torte

RECIPE BY SUNSET This makes 4 servings (for me) or more for those less greedy. 1 1/2 pounds (3 or 4) tender-sweet apples, such as Cameo, Fuji, or Gala (Pink Lady, Jazz, Honeygold are also deli

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  • October 4, 2020

National Hispanic Heritage Month

The ways Hispanics describe their identity varies across immigrant generations For National Hispanic Heritage Month, we [Pew Research Center] looked at the terms Hispanics in the United States

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  • October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

Constitutional Myth #8

Constitutional Myth #8: The 14th Amendment Doesn’t Exist GARRETT EPPS  JULY 13, 2011 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens o

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NPR

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