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A Texas Democrat's words of support for the NFL protests have gone viral
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6 years ago
Beto O’Rourke, who is running to unseat Ted Cruz, was asked if kneeling NFL players are disrespectful. This is his reply: The question is, how do you feel about NFL players who take a knee during...
When the photographer who shot the Beatles captured the moment the Vietnam war came home
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6 years ago
Michael Cooper was most famous for shooting candid moments with the Rolling Stones and the cover of the Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. But in the summer of 1968 he...
The Progressive Legacy / Part 2: The culture wars
By: vic-eldred
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6 years ago
As I believe I have demonstrated in Part 1, America's progressives have produced legislation to create dependency and legislation which was partly responsible for the breakdown of the family...
The Mueller investigation is showing how badly we’ve failed to prosecute white-collar crime
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6 years ago
It shouldn’t take a special counsel to catch these guys. The thought that must keep Michael Cohen up at night as he surrenders to the FBI in advance of pleading guilty to $20 million in...
Terrorized African-Americans Found Their Champion in Civil War Hero Robert Smalls
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6 years ago
In May 1862, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls won renown by stealing the Planter , the Confederate military transport on which he served as a pilot. On a night when the ship’s three white...
DC Restaurants to White Supremacists: Yes, We Will Kick You Out
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6 years ago
Downtown business owners plan alternate employee transportation, training ahead of Unite the Right rally. What happens if a white supremacist walks into a bar? Sounds like a joke, but...
A Memorial Sign to Emmett Till Was Defaced With Four Bullet Holes
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6 years ago
This is the third time the marker of the African-American boy’s brutal torture and murder in Mississippi in 1955 has been vandalized Emmett Till Interpretive Center In 1955,...
Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth
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6 years ago
From vaccines to climate change to genocide, a new age of denialism is upon us. Why have we failed to understand it? W e are all in denial, some of the time at least. Part of being human,...
The Massacre of Black Sharecroppers That Led the Supreme Court to Curb the Racial Disparities of the Justice System
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6 years ago
White Arkansans, fearful of what would happen if African-Americans organized, took violent action, but it was the victims who ended up standing trial Elaine Defendants, Helena, Phillips...
American white people really hate being called “white people”
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6 years ago
A Twitter poll drama, explained. A few days ago, I came across this rather striking finding from a recent public opinion survey by the Public Religion Research Institute: Image is...
How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
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6 years ago
Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind. Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a...
Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer Who Saw the Course of the Universe
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6 years ago
In 1967 a very prominent astronomer visited Dallas to give a talk. Before he could speak, however, a young woman named Beatrice Tinsley stood up and told the audience that everything they were...
More Than 450 Migrant Parents May Have Been Deported Without Their Children
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6 years ago
The Trump administration told a federal court on Tuesday that more than 450 migrant parents whose children were separated from them are no longer in the United States, raising questions about...
Not Just Papa John: There Are All Kinds of Racists
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6 years ago
A friend of mine witnessed an incident the other day. Some folks had car trouble and were stranded at a gas station. A man saw that they needed help, proceeded to go and fix their car for them,...
Sure, ‘Pizzagate’ is bunk, but does a conspiracy theorist lurk inside all of us?
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6 years ago
The ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory of 2016 claimed that Hillary Clinton and other high-ranking US Democratic Party officials were operating a child sex-trafficking ring from a popular pizzeria in...
'Predatory police': the high price of driving while black in Missouri
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6 years ago
A 2014 federal report found that St Louis area police’s use of traffic stops to raise revenue through fines was an underlying cause of racial unrest. For African Americans pulled over up to 10...
John Adams Thoughts On The Verge Of A New Nation
By: perrie-halpern
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6 years ago
On the eve of the vote for American independence, John Adams, who was both concerned that the vote would not pass, since it had to be unanimous, yet could clearly see in his mind a new nation....