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Tag: Black Lives Matter

  • Prof Patty
  • November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

Black Lives Matter? Really? To You?

How can you show your support for treating black folks equally without marching or demonstrating? According to The Strategist, “You can donate money to a local, grassroots organiza

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 20, 2020

Uncle Ben’s Rebrands as Ben’s Original

By Mike Pomranz  September 23, 2020 In 2020, as the Black Lives Matter movement grew in prominence, America also further reckoned with brands considered to be culturally in

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

For Pastors of White Churches with Black Members

The Church’s Black Exodus Pastors’ silence on racism and COVID-19 is driving Black parishioners away from their congregations. DARA T. MATHIS OCTOBER 11, 2020 Across the country, Black Ame

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 3, 2020September 3, 2020

American Catholics and the Black Lives Matter Movement

Racism makes a liar of God. It says not everyone is made in his image. What a horrible lie from the pit of hell. Gloria Purvis, co-host of a popular Catholic radio show, “Morning Glory,” and a

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  • Prof Patty
  • August 8, 2020August 8, 2020

America’s Most Racist Town

Man held up a Black Lives Matter sign in ‘America’s Most Racist Town’ and shared how it went This is full of profanity and ugliness but is familiar to many, many black and brown folks.

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NY Times

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  • Synagogue Attack Tests Bonds of Michigan Community
  • For Trump, a Promised Economic Boom Collides With the Costs of War
  • Judge Rules Lawmaker Must Be Allowed to Join Kennedy Center Board Meeting
  • Explosion at Jewish School in Amsterdam Is 2nd Antisemitic Attack in 2 Days, Officials Say

NPR

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  • In layers of melting glacier ice, scientists find a story of pre-industrial pollution
  • NASA targets Artemis II crewed moon mission for April 1 launch
  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them
  • 2025 saw relatively fewer natural disasters. Will you get a break on home insurance?

The Progressive

  • Silence Is Surrender
  • Why We Need Leaders Like Frances Perkins
  • The Fight for Palestine in Higher Education Continues, Despite Institutional Backlash
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  • Gutting Discrimination Enforcement in Education: What Could Go Wrong?

FactCheck.org

  • No Broad Autism Approval for Leucovorin, Despite FDA Commissioner’s Prior Suggestions
  • How Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz Affects the U.S.
  • Is the U.S. at ‘War’? Politicians Disagree
  • Trump’s Claim About the Obama Nuclear Deal and Iran’s Nuclear Development
  • Without Providing Evidence, Trump Pins School Bombing on Iran

Snopes.com

  • Watch out for false claim about Stephen Colbert's 'emergency monologue' during 3 a.m. broadcast
  • Did Kamala Harris say, 'Iran is a country, but we don't live there, so it's not our country'?
  • 16 claims we've researched in Iran war's first 2 weeks
  • Lindsey Graham once said Republican Party was 'killing all the right people'
  • Video doesn't show Netanyahu with 6 fingers per hand, isn't AI

Tradeoffs

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  • Immigration Enforcement’s Twin Threats to Health Care
  • As States and CDC Split on Vaccines, What's Next?
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