Bored? Take a Free Class… I was looking at my email this afternoon and noticed an email from The Great Courses (special offer). Let me start by saying that this costs money. Of course, I began looking to see what is available to those of us who may be sheltering in place with little money,…
Read More Free EducationThat’s my name for a provision that was sneaked into the 880-page bill in March that was meant to bail out America’s economy. This giveaway provides $135 billion to very wealthy Americans such as real estate tycoons: Some 43,000 people with annual incomes of more than $1 million will each get a $1.6 million benefit.…
Read More Zillionaire GiveawayConnecticut community colleges can start offering certain types of classes Monday for spring semester students who need to complete programs, and state universities can start reopening campuses Aug. 24, officials announced Friday. Community colleges would also be able to bring all students back on campus by Aug. 24, according to the plan announced by Mark…
Read More State college and university campuses to reopen for start of fall semesterEpiscopal bishop on President Trump: ‘Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence’ By Michelle Boorstein and Sarah Pulliam Bailey June 1, 2020 at 11:08 p.m. EDT “I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call, that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they…
Read More Episcopal bishop on TrumpOn February 4, Simon & Schuster published Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women’s Voices. Edited by Katherine Alford, a former vice president at Food Network, and Kathy Gunst of NPR’s Here and Now, the book features essays and recipes from women to explore how “baking can be an outlet for expressing our feelings about…
Read More The ‘Rage Baking’ Controversy, ExplainedIn “Insecure,” “Love Is Blind” and “The Lovebirds,” these leading ladies are pushing back against dating bias in the real world. In many ways, these romances push back against racial bias in the real world. In 2014, the online dating site OkCupid updated a study that found that of all the groups on its site, African-American women…
Read More Interracial Romance, With Black Women as the StarsStay outside the lines with…Logan B (NC). She and her friend, Emily K, helped create Coloring for COVID-19. A website that has coloring books for children ages five to 10 as a resource to learn more about the coronavirus. Print out your pages here.
Read More For the Kids…The situation in Michigan reminds me of an oft-forgotten part of our history that occurred in 1898 North Carolina. There, armed men took over Wilmington, North Carolina, killed or ran out of town African Americans and Fusion Republican whites. They then took over the newly elected government and installed an illegal one composed of white…
Read More The Lost History of an American Coup D’ÉtatJK Rowling unveils The Ickabog, her first non-Harry Potter children’s book The Ickabog is her first children’s story not to be linked to Harry Potter. She wrote it over a decade ago for her own children and has now dusted it off. Chapters of The Ickabog are being published daily until 10 July on The Ickabog…
Read More The IckabogAutism Spectrum Diagnosis Helped Comic Hannah Gadsby ‘Be Kinder’ To Herself May 26, 20201:44 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air Gadsby embarked on a comedy career in Australia, but she still felt out of place. It wasn’t until 2016, when she was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder that things started to make sense. Gadsby’s breakout comedy…
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