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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

  • Camp Mystic Says It Will Not Reopen This Summer After Fatal Texas Floods
  • Mills Exit Is a Blow to Schumer as Democrats Question His Strategy
  • Hegseth Says Iran Cease-Fire Stops Clock for Congressional Approval
  • Is Yoko Ono Still Our Most Radical Artist?
  • Attacks on Jewish Targets in Europe Suggest Hybrid Warfare

NPR

  • Craig Venter, pioneering human genome decoder, dies at 79
  • How Trump's EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters
  • Like soap operas, 75 feet up: How bald eagle nest cams hook online communities
  • In the midst of an energy crisis, countries make plans to ditch oil, gas and coal
  • Scientists see Trump's firing of the National Science Board as an attack on research

The Progressive

  • Strategy and Leverage—Not Vibes—Are What We Need Now
  • ‘ICE Fishing’ in Minneapolis
  • The Response We Need to the Cesar Chavez Revelations
  • The Scarcity of Smartphones in Gaza
  • ‘I Still Hold My Head Up, and I Still Know Who I Am’

FactCheck.org

  • Providing Context for Leavitt’s Examples of ‘Violent Rhetoric’
  • Project 2025 Series Wins National Headliner Award
  • The Persistent Misleading Claim That Vaccines Aren’t Properly Tested for Safety
  • Trump’s Numbers, April 2026 Update
  • We Won a Webby People’s Voice Award

Snopes.com

  • Did every US hospital receive secret DOD letter suspending pharma contracts? We inspected
  • Conservative influencer Jack Posobiec's '86 46' post resurfaces after Comey indictment
  • Does photo prove Trump admin displayed Australian flag on White House office building for King Charles III visit?
  • Did Minnesota Senate Democrats oppose removing dead people from voter rolls? Here's the real story
  • Contextualizing claims all new cars sold in US will include mandatory surveillance technology by 2027

Tradeoffs

  • Doctors Hated the No Surprises Act. Now Some Are Getting Rich Off of It.
  • New York Braces for Trump's Big Medicaid Shakeup
  • Should People Who Want GLP-1s Have to Work for Them?
  • High Health Care Costs Are Fueling a New Fight Over Old Laws
  • Trump's Pick to Quiet the Chaos at HHS
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