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Author: Prof Patty

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

An Exclusive Talk with Violinist Regina Carter Discussing Her Latest Album Swing States: Harmony in the Battleground

TUNE IN: Tuesday, September 22nd @ 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. ETJazz Standard‘s Facebook Live Regina Carter is a lot of things: She’s a pioneering jazz violinist. She’s a MacArthu

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  • September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Happy Constitution Day!

Constitution Day is an American federal observance that recognizes the adoption of the United States Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. It is normally observed on September 17, t

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  • September 18, 2020

College Board Creates Advanced Placement Curriculum on African Diaspora for High School Students

BY GOODBLACKNEWS ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2020 (Photo of high school students by AP/Jaime Henry-White via Creative Commons) Years in the making, the influential College Board is launching an ambi

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  • September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

Trump Revelations

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  • September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka let her masks do the talking.

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 spor

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  • September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

Toots Hibbert helped give reggae its name, its sound, and its enduring grace

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 “re

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 18, 2020

Cancer Projects to Diversify Genetic Research Receive New Grants

Because 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

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  • September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

Beware of Scams

This 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

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  • September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

When the Wrong Singer for the Song Is Just So Right

By 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

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  • September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

Jason Moran

Jason 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

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  • September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

Octavia Butler

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  • September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

The latest kerfuffle

Why 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. Kh

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  • September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

White GWU professor admits she falsely claimed Black identity

In 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 histor

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  • September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

David Foster Wallace on Leadership

It 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. O

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  • September 16, 2020

Faces of Power

On Thursday, 9/10/20, the New York Times published an article which is essential viewing for all of us. Faces of Power is an article with photo arrays which shows, in graphic form, that o

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NY Times

  • California’s Public Universities Went All in on A.I. Now They’re Tearing Themselves Apart.
  • Prized by ‘MAHA’ Influencers and Chefs Alike, Craft Flour Is on the Rise
  • Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’
  • He Become China’s Largest Critic in Exile. Then The Threats Followed Him.
  • Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
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NPR

  • An entomologist ordered a mezcal, and then got curious
  • Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer
  • Bean plants call for aerial reinforcements when caterpillars attack
  • WHO chief lands in Congo to address rare Ebola outbreak amid distrust and insecurity
  • Blue Origin rocket explodes on the launch pad during an engine-firing test
https://youtu.be/43K2pPExXms?si=NbrYUf1m4HPj1xc7

The Progressive

  • Rideshare Win Could Bring Big Changes
  • Seeing History Through the Lens of Courage
  • The Crisis We Are Causing in Cuba
  • The Time Has Come for City-Owned Groceries
  • A Sordid History of Stolen Korean Children
https://youtu.be/6oomXq2Q7Jc?si=94qqOcBIzoYSk2gd

FactCheck.org

  • A Timeline of RFK Jr.’s Mixed Messaging on the Measles Vaccine
  • Trump Distorts Maryland’s Primary Ballot Mix-up to Attack Mail-in Voting
  • RFK Jr.’s Muddled Claims on Drug Approval Speed
  • Ad in Texas GOP Runoff Attacks Cornyn on Immigration, Islam
  • What Will Happen to Gasoline Prices When the Iran War Ends?
https://youtu.be/KU5V5WZVcVE?si=4rbzf6zpzIFXMrLl

Snopes.com

  • Were Driscoll's strawberries confirmed to cause cancer? Posts exaggerate pesticide test results
  • 9 claims about Donald Trump Jr. we've researched since the start of his father's 2nd term
  • Did Bill Clinton say Palestinians 'never really wanted a homeland' and 'just wanted to kill the Jews'?
  • Unpacking claim Trump personally paid to rebuild Central Park ice rink in the '80s
  • Did Trump say he'd outlaw photographing or posting gas prices?
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Tradeoffs

  • A Closer Look at a Widely Despised Health Insurance Policy
  • Republicans Want to Change How You Buy Health Care
  • The U.S. Saved $1 Trillion on Health Care. Why Doesn't It Feel Like It?
  • Call to Mind: The Fifth Branch
  • Doctors Hated the No Surprises Act. Now Some Are Getting Rich Off of It.
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