That’s my name for a provision that was sneaked into the 880-page bill in March that was meant to bail out America’s economy. This giveaway provides $135 billion to very wealthy Americans such as real estate tycoons: Some 43,000 people with annual incomes of more than $1 million will each get a $1.6 million benefit.…
Read More Zillionaire GiveawayConnecticut community colleges can start offering certain types of classes Monday for spring semester students who need to complete programs, and state universities can start reopening campuses Aug. 24, officials announced Friday. Community colleges would also be able to bring all students back on campus by Aug. 24, according to the plan announced by Mark…
Read More State college and university campuses to reopen for start of fall semesterEpiscopal bishop on President Trump: ‘Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence’ By Michelle Boorstein and Sarah Pulliam Bailey June 1, 2020 at 11:08 p.m. EDT “I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call, that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they…
Read More Episcopal bishop on TrumpOn February 4, Simon & Schuster published Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women’s Voices. Edited by Katherine Alford, a former vice president at Food Network, and Kathy Gunst of NPR’s Here and Now, the book features essays and recipes from women to explore how “baking can be an outlet for expressing our feelings about…
Read More The ‘Rage Baking’ Controversy, ExplainedIn “Insecure,” “Love Is Blind” and “The Lovebirds,” these leading ladies are pushing back against dating bias in the real world. In many ways, these romances push back against racial bias in the real world. In 2014, the online dating site OkCupid updated a study that found that of all the groups on its site, African-American women…
Read More Interracial Romance, With Black Women as the StarsStay outside the lines with…Logan B (NC). She and her friend, Emily K, helped create Coloring for COVID-19. A website that has coloring books for children ages five to 10 as a resource to learn more about the coronavirus. Print out your pages here.
Read More For the Kids…The situation in Michigan reminds me of an oft-forgotten part of our history that occurred in 1898 North Carolina. There, armed men took over Wilmington, North Carolina, killed or ran out of town African Americans and Fusion Republican whites. They then took over the newly elected government and installed an illegal one composed of white…
Read More The Lost History of an American Coup D’ÉtatJK Rowling unveils The Ickabog, her first non-Harry Potter children’s book The Ickabog is her first children’s story not to be linked to Harry Potter. She wrote it over a decade ago for her own children and has now dusted it off. Chapters of The Ickabog are being published daily until 10 July on The Ickabog…
Read More The IckabogAutism Spectrum Diagnosis Helped Comic Hannah Gadsby ‘Be Kinder’ To Herself May 26, 20201:44 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air Gadsby embarked on a comedy career in Australia, but she still felt out of place. It wasn’t until 2016, when she was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder that things started to make sense. Gadsby’s breakout comedy…
Read More Autism HelpsDo you trust your partner to cut your hair? It’s the ultimate relationship test. My husband’s hair was getting a bit long and unruly so he asked me to cut it. For those of you who know me well, you know that doing anything hair related is at the far, farther, farthest boundary of my…
Read More Hair in the Coronavirus EraShrimp Tacos, Refried Beans and Rice: A Pantry Meal Today is Memorial Day, a day when we honor our veterans and those who lost their lives while in the service of our country. I think about my oldest grandson who is serving in the Navy. I also think of all the people that were lynched,…
Read More A Pantry MealLegendary jazz tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson was born on May 25, 1878, in Richmond, Virginia. His given name was Luther, but he despised it and appropriated that of his younger brother, William. An extraordinary performer and synthesizer of the tap tradition, Robinson is also credited with one major innovation in this American art form: transforming its…
Read More Bill “Bojangles” RobinsonWhen I cook too much rice (my husband doesn’t like brown rice so it is usually long-grain plain or long-grain jasmine) or have leftover rice from ordering Chinese, I usually make rice pudding the easy way. I put the rice in a pot, cover it with milk – I use cow milk but you can…
Read More Rice Pudding from Leftover RiceFrom James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree comes…
Read More The Cross and the Lynching TreeIntroducing Esperanza Spalding Portland, Oregon-born jazz singer, bassist, and cellist Esperanza Spalding displayed prodigious talents from an early age playing violin with the Chamber Music Society of Oregon. She burst onto America’s jazz music scene with the release of her debut album Junjo in 2006, receiving favorable reviews from the likes of the New York Times’ critic Ben Ratliff. Since then,…
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