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  • Kintsugi
  • December 17, 2021December 17, 2021

Garden & Gun’s Favorite Cookbooks of 2021

Cheryl Day’s Treasury of Southern Baking, by Cheryl Day Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ: Every Day Is a Good Day, by Rodney Scott and Lolis Eric Elie ** Just a Few Miles South, by Ouita Michel

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  • Prof Patty
  • December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

Best Books 2021 NY Times

Best Fiction and Non-Fiction Books of 2021 from the NY Times The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers No One Is Talking About This By Patricia Lockwood When We Cease to Und

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  • Prof Patty
  • December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2021

FictionBewilderment by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (One World)Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (Dut

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  • Kintsugi
  • February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

These 5 books by Black women are must-reads this month – and any month

By Candace McDuffie, Correspondent, Christian Scientist Monitor Black feminist thought has become crucial to how we navigate the social, economic, and political currents in America. To un

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  • Prof Patty
  • August 18, 2020

Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer

“The Black Count,” by Tom Reiss: The true story of General Alex Dumas, the son of a Black slave who inspired “The Count of Monte Cristo” and other swashbuckling tales written by h

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NY Times

  • The Coming Iranian Revolution
  • As Trump Scrambles the World Order, Can Germany Learn the Language of Hard Power?
  • ‘Pray We Make It Through the Night’: Iran’s Capital Under Siege
  • When Trump Meets Germany’s Merz, Iran Will Likely Dominate Discussion
  • In Republican Win, Supreme Court Retains G.O.P. District in New York

NPR

  • If you change the colors of a concert hall, you may change how patrons hear music
  • Peer pressure can make this clownfish change its stripes
  • Satellite images provide view inside Iran at war
  • NASA lost a lunar spacecraft one day after launch. A new report shows what went wrong
  • Unlocking the secrets of an ancient plague

The Progressive

  • The Return of the Luddites
  • Daniel Ellsberg’s Last Words
  • As Asheville Expanded Its Panhandling Ban, the Community Debuted a Street Paper
  • San José State University Should Fight Ruling on Trans Athletes
  • Building a Home

FactCheck.org

  • FactChecking Trump’s State of the Union Address
  • A Pre-SOTU Guide to Trump’s Economic Claims
  • Trump Misleads on Drug Pricing Deals
  • The Disagreement over Judicial and Administrative Warrants for ICE
  • Trump and Musk Amplify Long-Ago Debunked Mail-In Vote Fraud Claim

Snopes.com

  • Was Trump partying at Mar-a-Lago while US bombed Iran? We unpacked the claim
  • Inspecting video said to show Iranian mourners calling for revenge over strikes that killed Khamenei
  • Did UN Security Council label Trump a 'war criminal' after Iran strikes? Here's the truth
  • Fake image of man in Kuwait confronting crashed US fighter pilot spreads after jets shot down
  • Vance once wrote op-ed claiming Trump's best foreign policy during first term was 'not starting any wars'

Tradeoffs

  • Immigration Enforcement’s Twin Threats to Health Care
  • As States and CDC Split on Vaccines, What's Next?
  • A Better Way to Care for Older Adults with Opioid Addiction
  • Mental Illness Left Their Loved Ones on the Streets. California’s Big Fix Hasn’t Helped
  • One State's Sprint for its Share of $50 Billion for Rural Health: Part 2

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