Author: Prof Patty

My mother didn’t cook. The only thing I ever saw her make was this bread pudding. This is how she did it. She took her casserole dish and buttered it so the pudding wouldn’t stick. Then she toasted bread, buttered it and tore it into bite sized pieces. She did that until the dish was…

According to the inside flap of her book Facism: A Warning, “The twentieth century was defined by the clash between democracy and Fascism, a struggle that created uncertainty about the survival of human freedom and left millions dead. Given these horrors, one might expect the world to reject the spiritual successors to Hitler and Mussolini should…

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) — When it comes to homemade face masks, two or three layers of fabric is best, researchers say. That’s what you need to keep droplets from your nose and mouth from spreading the virus, the Australian scientists found. The findings were published online July 23 in the journal Thorax.…

Herman Cain (center), former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, former Republican presidential candidate, and icon of conservative values has died a month after being hospitalized with COVID-19. He attended President Trump’s Tulsa rally on June 20, where he was photographed in close proximity with others in a crowded seating area where no one was wearing a…

Record Number of Black Emmy Awards Nominees for 2020 Black nominees across all acting categories include Cicely Tyson, Billy Porter, Angela Bassett, Sterling K. Brown, Zendaya, Mahershala Ali, Anthony Anderson, Don Cheadle, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross, Andre Braugher, Giancarlo, Esposito, Regina King, Jeffrey Wright, Uzo, Aduba, Samira Wiley, William Jackson Parker, Phylicia Rashad, Jeremy Pope, Yvonne Orji, Wanda Sykes,…

There’s a Divide in Even the Closest Interracial Friendships Including ours. By Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman Race plays out differently in every friendship. And not all interracial relationships involve a Black person and a white person, but ours does. Contrary to what pop culture would have us believe, most interracial friendships aren’t actually rooted in deep conversations…

EPA approves first two cleaning sprays that kill the coronavirus in 2 minutes Lysol Disinfectant Spray and Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist are the first two disinfectants to be approved for their ability to kill the virus. In May, the CDC recommended that people clean homes with common EPA-registered household disinfectants, which were expected to kill SARS-CoV-2, “harder to kill”…

White Lives Matter? Of course they do….they always have.

Moving is not for the faint of heart. Whenever you move, you have to clean too. I hate cleaning almost as much as I hate moving, BUT I like things to be clean and orderly. The current chaos that is my office is a multi-week challenge. while I was working on a particular pile, I…

Retail Stores in Financial Difficulties (Look for Sales!) Lord & Taylor filed for bankruptcy Tailored Brands, which owns Men’s Wearhouse and Jos. A. Bank Brooks Bros. filed for bankruptcy Macy’s closing some stores Signet Jewelers: Kay Jewelers, Zales, Jared, H.Samuel, Ernest Jones, Peoples, and Piercing Pagoda PVH Corp: Heritage Brand  Sur La Table filed for…