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By CHRISTOPHER ARNOTT HARTFORD COURANT  |JUL 01, 2021 AT 2:55 PM Connecticut’s ban on single-use plastic bags took effect on July 1, and this time, those flimsy receptacles are gone for good. If you forget to bring your own bags to the store, there’s no stack of plastic single-use ones you can get for a dime each. The pesky…

Read More Single-use plastic bags are gone for good in Connecticut. If you forget to bring your own bag to the store, there won’t be any single-use ones available

Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring and visionary spiritual teachers in the world today. With his international bestsellers The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose — translated into more than 50 languages — he has introduced millions to the joy and freedom of living life in the present…

Read More We would like to invite you to a free video miniseries with the phenomenal Eckhart Tolle: Conscious Manifestation 2021: How to Create From A Place of Presence.

Lupus, a chronic autoimmune ailment that affects 1.5 million Americans, is a bit of a shape-shifter. Most people with it (around 70 percent) have the systemic form of the disease, which can wreak havoc on pretty much any major organ or tissue in the body. That means the way it manifests can differ dramatically among…

Read More 5 Warning Signs of Lupus

If … one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves and their real contributions to this culture, you would be liberating not only Negroes, you’d be liberating white people who know nothing about their own history. James Baldwin By LaGarrett King  Jun 17, 2021, 10:00pm MDT Miseducation, defined,…

Read More Why our schools aren’t doing justice to the complexities of Black history

Ursula Burns, former CEO, Xerox: “I struggled…with this idea that we run a mechanical structure, that people are just a cog in the wheel.” Listen HERE. Ursula Burns is one of the most notable business leaders in America. She ran Xerox from 2009 to 2016, and when she took the top job, she also became the…

Read More Ursula Burns on Modern Leadership

“In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was…

Read More Summer of Soul (1969) documentary

By Gillian Brockell June 30, 2021 at 2:34 p.m. EDT Read HERE. Despite being impeached twice, former president Donald Trump is not the worst president in U.S. history, according to 142 presidential historians surveyed by C-SPAN, the results of which were released Wednesday. But the survey doesn’t give Trump much to brag about either. He ranked lower than William Henry…

Read More Historians just ranked the presidents. Trump wasn’t last.

Annie Reneau 06.30.21 This morning, the Texas Public Policy Foundation shared—then deleted—a graphic with a list of terms they claim are indicative of critical race theory (CRT) being taught in children’s classrooms. The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s stated mission is “to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation,” so…

Read More Texas policy group shares—then deletes—ridiculous list of critical race theory ‘buzzwords’

Ben Lovejoy – Jun. 29th 2021 4:11 am PT A second massive LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes the data of 700M users, which is more than 92% of the total 756M users. The database is for sale on the dark web, with records including phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation data, and inferred salaries. The hacker who obtained the data has posted…

Read More LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, including inferred salaries

By Kelly Vaughan May 04, 2021 In order to prevent a cake from sticking to a pan, start by properly and thoroughly greasing the cake pan. “Grease and line your pans—this is your insurance policy,” says Odette Williams, baker, writer, and author of Simple Cake: All You Need to Keep Your Friends and Family in Cake ($13.99, amazon.com). There are so…

Read More How to Release a Stuck Cake from a Pan

This Pride Month, as it always has, AT&T changed its corporate logo to a rainbow, issued statements for equality, and tweeted out support for LGBTQ youth — all for a month-long marketing campaign. But a stunning new report from Popular Information found that over the last two years AT&T donated $1,079,500 to anti-LGBTQ federal politicians, as well…

Read More AT&T donated more than $1.1 million to anti-LGBTQ lawmakers