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Americans have endured economic crises before but none quite like this one. To capture the depths of the suffering, The New York Times teamed up with 11 local news organizations across the country to document the lives of a dozen Americans who found themselves out of work. Read the full special report here. From “The Week” Pandemic poverty:…

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HARTFORD, CT – The University of Connecticut will pay $249,539 to resolve alleged pay discrimination at its Storrs, Connecticut, campus following a routine compliance review by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). OFCCP found that the public university and federal contractor discriminated against five female employees in Specialist IA and Specialist…

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By Meera S. Nair, Crimson Staff Writer October 7, 2020 Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley approved renaming the school’s Holmes Society in honor of physician-scientist William Augustus Hinton, Class of 1905, the first Black tenured professor at Harvard. Until now, the Holmes Society bore the name of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Class of 1829,…

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Juneteenth, June 19, 1865, marks the day when news of the Emancipation Proclamation and the abolition of slavery reached Texas via a Union Army general Gordon Granger, setting off celebrations among the newly freed. It became an official Virginia state holiday on October 13, 2020. As far as I’ve been able to find, Virginia and…

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The comments, shown in a new documentary, are the strongest yet from a pontificate that has taken a more tolerant and inclusive tone. By Jason Horowitz Oct. 21, 2020 Updated 6:05 p.m. ET ROME — Pope Francis expressed support for same-sex civil unions in remarks revealed in a documentary film that premiered on Wednesday, a significant break from…

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Have you ever heard of Cariuma? I hadn’t until recently. What about Rothys? Here are a few eco-friendly, recycled shoe brands: https://www.uniguide.com/recycled-shoes-brands/ https://earthyb.com/blog/sustainable-shoes/ https://ecoworldonline.com/8-best-sneakers-made-or-recycled-plastic/ https://www.businessinsider.com/sustainable-sneaker-brands https://www.sperry.com/en/bionic/

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For more information on black poets, and to read some incredible poetry, go to Africanamericanpoetry.org, or theroot.com, or poets.org, or curiosityshots.com – or search for the many other sites available. HERE IS A SHORT LIST OF SOME POETS I ENJOY TO GET YOU STARTED: Gwendolyn Brooks Rita Dove Langston Hughes Lucille Clifton June Jordan Claudia Rankine Derek Walcott Kate Rushin…

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By Adam Parker [email protected] Oct 17, 2020  In 1965, the house at 270 Ashley Ave. was bulldozed. This was no ordinary Charleston house. This was the home of J. Arthur Brown, president of the South Carolina NAACP. This was the place where plans were laid — to integrate the Charleston County public schools, to join the Kress sit-ins —…

Read More Why highways were designed to run through Black communities. SC faces historic dilemma again.

[First a little introduction. The War of 1812 was fought between the British and their allies and the Americans and their allies. The British burned the White House down and took American prisoners. Francis Scott Key, a descendant of plantation slaveholders and brother in law of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney of Dred Scott…

Read More The ugly reason ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ didn’t become our national anthem for a century