The Normalization of White Male Violence Seven summers ago, when Dylann Roof killed nine parishioners in a Charleston church, he signaled that perhaps white millennials would not, in fact, be more racially progressive than their parents or grandparents. Here, again, the hard truth that progress is not linear: Payton Gendron, the Buffalo shooter, is 18 years old…
Read More White Male Violence NormalizedRashawn Ray Tuesday, May 17, 202 A hate crime occurs nearly every hour in the United States. Saturday afternoon was no different. Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old white man, drove to a grocery store in a predominately Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. He then filmed himself shooting 13 people (11 Black and two white), killing 10, including a retired police…
Read More Preventing racial hate crimes means tackling white supremacist ideologyBy Emily Flitter May 19, 2022 Joe Bruno, a former executive in the wealth management division of Wells Fargo, had long been troubled by the way his unit handled certain job interviews. Mr. Bruno is one of seven current and former Wells Fargo employees who said that they were instructed by their direct bosses or human resources…
Read More At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job InterviewsBy Michael Duffy Washington Post Opinions editor-at-large We are witnessing something of a watershed moment in the reckoning America is having with itself and its history. Harvard University released a 134-page report Tuesday that begins to explain how, as Post columnist Eugene Robinson put it, “the nation’s oldest, richest and most prestigious institution of higher learning” benefited from slavery. Two Harvard…
Read More A hard historical truth about HarvardGun deaths among children and teens rose by 29 percent in a single year, largely because of an increase in homicides. April 22, 2022, 3:58 AM EDT By Aria Bendix Guns became the leading cause of death among children and teens in 2020, killing more people ages 1 to 19 in the U.S. than vehicle crashes,…
Read More In a first, firearms were leading cause of death for U.S. children and teens in 2020While they have varying backgrounds and experiences, a majority of Black Americans (76%) say being Black is extremely or very important to how they think about themselves. A significant share says that when something happens to Black people in their local communities, across the nation or around the globe, it affects what happens in their own lives.…
Read More Race is central to identity for Black Americans and affects how they connect with each otherBlair Levin Monday, April 18, 2022 Conventional wisdom holds that last year’s bipartisan passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) reflects the tradition of both parties wanting to deliver better roads and bridges—with nothing new to tell us about making progress elsewhere in our polarized, partisan environment. If anything, infrastructure is the exception that (barely)…
Read More Broadband bipartisanship: How did it happen and will it continue?BY ASSOCIATED PRESS APRIL 25, 2022 12:29 AM EDT WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — An Air Force major general in Ohio has been convicted by a military judge of one of three specifications of abusive sexual contact in the first-ever military trial of an Air Force general. Officials said the verdict marks the first court-martial trial and…
Read More Air Force Maj. Gen. William Cooley Has Been Court-Martialed for Abusive Sexual Contact in an Unprecedented CaseRachel Weingarten Updated: Apr. 21, 2022 Scammers can use your phone number to impersonate, steal from, and harass you and others. Here’s what to do if your info is compromised. What can someone do with your phone number? “In today’s world, it is extremely easy for hackers to wreak havoc on your life using your cell…
Read More Here’s What Hackers Can Do with Just Your Cell Phone NumberEvery year, new studies are released on which states are the worst for retirees to reside in, factoring in metrics like affordability, health care, quality of life, crime, and weather. We’ve averaged three recent state rankings to create one master list. Here are the 25 worst states for retirement in 2022. 25 worst states (Don’t forget to…
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Read More AARP has Movies for GrownupsHealth Care — GOP preps for Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade BY PETER SULLIVAN, NATHANIEL WEIXEL AND JOSEPH CHOI – 04/12/22 Republicans are plotting out their messaging strategy in case the Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade decision authorizing abortion rights. The GOP strategy is to lead with science-based arguments and portray those in favor of abortion rights as extremists. The…
Read More GOP Preps for Supreme Court Ruling on Roe v. WadeAlex Henderson April 04, 2022 But according to researchers David E. Brockman and Joshua L. Kalla, Fox News viewers developed better critical thinking skills when exposed to CNN. Brockman and Kalla, journalist Sravasti Dasgupta reports in The Independent, conducted an experiment in September 2020 and published the results in late March. According to Dasgupta, the experiment, “found…
Read More Fox News viewers experienced ‘changes in attitudes’ after watching CNN for 30 days: studyAcclaimed novelist, essayist, and poet Margaret Atwood was awarded the 2022 Hitchens Prize. Her full remarks from the Prize ceremony can be read on The Atlantic’s website. By Margaret Atwood Having feelings was not a thing back then. We would not have admitted to owning such marshmallow-like appendages, and if we did have any feelings, we’d have considered them irrelevant as…
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