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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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  • Prof Patty
  • 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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Dance Theater of Harlem

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  • U.S. Finds Subdued Foreign Meddling Operations in Midterm Elections
  • Why a Merciless Supreme Court Rebuke on Election Eve Matters
  • Stocks Erase Post-Midterm Elections Rally, Dragged Down by Tech
  • How Colom Changed a Long Shot in Mississippi Into a Race Too Close to Call
  • DOJ Steps Up Leak Investigation on Supreme Court Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade

Samara Joy

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  • 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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  • We Need More Mentor Teachers of Color
  • GOP Targets Unhoused People; Local Governments Problem Solve
  • On the House
  • Rejecting Trump’s Administrative War
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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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  • Does photo show Trump being carried by Secret Service agents after fainting over GOP midterm losses?
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  • Washington voters approved measure that could force girls in sports to undergo genital inspections
  • Is Trump admin planning nuclear strike on Iran in wake of midterms? What we know
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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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  • Medicare Plans Keep Disappearing
  • Reimagining the Future of Health Research After Sweeping Cuts
  • Hidden Help: What Happened When Oregon Forced Hospitals to Boost Financial Aid?

Marcus D Wiley

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  • Intending to Steal
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  • A New Approach

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