The Second Amendment consists of just one sentence: “A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The Brennan Center for Justice writes, “Today, scholars debate its bizarre comma placement, trying to make sense of the various clauses,…
Read More Second Amendment HistoryBY JOANE AMAY April 8, 2020 Decoding your curl type can be confusing. Several different textures can exist on one head alone (talking about my hair – K) which all have to somehow look cohesive when you style it. Plus, there’s been some debate as to whether the typing system, originally started by hairstylist Andre Walker and modified by folks in…
Read More How to Figure Out Your Curl TypeOn internet privacy, be very afraid Limit the personal information you share on social media. Turn on two-factor authentication especially for important accounts. Browse in incognito or private mode. Use a different search engine like DuckDuckGo or Qwant (go HERE) Before clicking on suspicious links, hover your cursor over the link to view the destination URL. If…
Read More How to Protect Your Online PrivacyBy Washington Post Staff Henrietta Wood After the Civil War, Wood made history by pursuing an audacious lawsuit against the man who had kidnapped her back into slavery. Joy Harjo Harjo is the 23rd poet laureate of the United States. A member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, she is the first Native American to hold the position. “Everyone wants…
Read More Celebrating female leadersBy Gene Wang March 13, 2021 at 11:52 p.m. EST Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s death Saturday at 66, which was announced by his wife, Kay, on the Facebook page for fans of the fighter who legally changed his name to “Marvelous,” shook the boxing world so deeply not only because of his standing as an iconic middleweight of his or…
Read More Marvin Hagler helped boxing soar in the 1980s, and nothing topped his epic TKO of Thomas HearnsThe University of Chicago Center on Law and Finance and the University of Virginia John W. Glynn, Jr. Law & Business Program present “A Workshop on Race and the Law of Business & Finance.” Scholars present their research on how the law interacts with issues of race in business and finance. University of Chicago Law School Dean Thomas J.…
Read More Workshop on Race and the Law of Business & FinanceBY PETER SULLIVAN – 03/13/21 06:55 AM EST Increase vaccine supply Get shots in arms, including in hard-to-reach communities Overcome vaccine hesitancy: An NPR-PBS-Marist poll released this week found 30 percent of U.S. adults overall did not want the vaccine, a number that spiked to 49 percent among Republican men. Make signing up for an appointment easier Make…
Read More Five things that must happen to get people vaccinatedSince its inception in 1964, the Grammy for best album notes has been awarded to just three women. Davis, who won in 1993 for an Aretha Franklin boxed set, was the first. By Daphne A. Brooks March 12, 2021 If it’s Grammy season, it’s time for the annual attention paid to what many see as the Recording…
Read More Thulani Davis and the Secret History of Women Writing Album Liner NotesBy Mark Guarino March 13, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EST CHICAGO — As a child in the 1950s, Amelia Cooper lived in a multigenerational home in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood that often served as a settlement house for friends of her grandfather, the blues musician Muddy Waters. Many were musicians, arriving from the rural South as Waters…
Read More A push to save landmarks of the ‘Great Migration’ — and better understand today’s racial inequitiesRead more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2021/03/13/tuskegee-airmen-wright-museum/115555474/
Read More Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit Becomes New Home of Tuskegee Airmen Museum, Virtual Grand Opening on 3/22Tod Perry 03.15.21 Internationally-acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma had 15 minutes to kill last Saturday after getting his COVID-19 vaccination at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, so he treated everyone to an impromptu concert. Ma is a part-time Berkshires resident and was receiving his second COVID-19 shot at the vaccination site. Richard Hall of the Berkshire…
Read More Yo-Yo Ma played a surprise concert during his post-vaccination observation periodBaked pineapple pie is a common Mexican dessert that’s not that easy to find in the States. Active: 45 mins Total: 2 hrs 45 min Original recipe submitted by Micah A Leal and published at Southern Living Recipes. Ingredients Dough: One box of Pillsbury prepared pie crusts (2 9-inch crusts per box) because I’m lazy right now, otherwise…
Read More Pineapple PieBy John Stoehr March 09, 2021 The United States Senate passed Saturday a covid relief package worth about $2 trillion.2 It is a giant piece of legislation, in size and scope, akin to the Social Security Act of 1935 in terms of impact on the farthest corners of our society. It is the sixth of six spending…
Read More The American Rescue ActMARCH 13, 2021 / 7:08 AM / CBS NEWS The Minneapolis City Council approved Friday a $27 million civil settlement with the family of George Floyd over the Black man’s death in police custody last year. The city council voted 13-0 to approve the settlement, which directs $500,000 to be used to benefit the George Floyd…
Read More Minneapolis approves “historic” $27 million settlement with George Floyd’s familyBy Timothy Bella March 13, 2021 at 12:06 p.m. EST Amid a contentious hearing over proposed restrictions on Arizona’s vote-by-mail system, a Republican state lawmaker argued that voters who hadn’t participated in recent elections should no longer automatically have absentee ballots mailed to them. The reasoning, said state Rep. John Kavanagh (R), is that Republicans care more…
Read More A GOP lawmaker says the ‘quality’ of a vote matters. Critics say that’s ‘straight out of Jim Crow.’