US gas prices continue to rise, set record prices last week; current national average at $4.59 per gallon, with California prices above $6 per gallon (More) Archaeologists uncover tomb of ancient Egyptian dignitary who handled secret documents for the pharaoh roughly 4,300 years ago (More) Southern Baptist Convention executive leadership meets today following an independent report that found the organization covered up…
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Read More Why You Need to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication ASAPBY ANNIKA BROCKSCHMIDT MAY 16, 2022 This trailer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s new documentary The End of Men has drawn a lot of mockery online—especially when it became clear that the device covering the genitals isn’t a glowing Covid test, but that the naked man standing on a pile of stones is in fact bathing his testicles in UV light—a…
Read More LAUGH AT TUCKER CARLSON’S TANNING TESTICLES DOC ALL YOU WANT, BUT THE BULGING MUSCLES AND POTENT SPERM IMAGERY IS A FASCIST DREAMAmanda Lauren Updated: May 13, 2022 According to Collen Clark, attorney and founder of Schmidt & Clark, LLP, porch piracy is a crime. “Although modified and stronger bills that outlaw porch pirating and stealing mail have recently been in effect, these thefts are often only charged as misdemeanors and frequently go uninvestigated.” Clark recommends homeowners put…
Read More 10 Ways to Stop Porch Pirates from Stealing Your PackagesThe 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 other