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Omar Epps The fatherly bond is so unique that we can't let stereotypes come between us and our kids
Via: perrie-halpern
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History & Sociology
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7 years ago
Becoming a father was exhilarating, exciting, scary — all those things everybody tells you you'll feel about bringing a life into the world. But at the end of the day, it was just beautiful....
The job Americans won't take: Arizona looks to Philippines to fill teacher shortage
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 years ago
Alan Celeridad teaches math at Vista Grande high school in Casa Grande. The need for mathematics, science, and special education teachers is especially dire in poor and rural schools. Nick...
When Slavery Is Erased From Plantations
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 years ago
Some presidential estates and other historical sites have struggled to reconcile founding-era exceptionalism with the true story of America’s original sin. The story of Sally Hemings—the...
A Texas Democrat's words of support for the NFL protests have gone viral
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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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History & Sociology
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108 Comments
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7 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...
Partisanship, Parasites, and Polarization
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 years ago
Are direct-marketing scams destroying the republic? A serious question. Parasites are a huge force in the natural world. For the most part they simply feed on their hosts. But there are a...
The Mueller investigation is showing how badly we’ve failed to prosecute white-collar crime
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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”
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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...
Have the Americans lost the sense of democracy?
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 years ago
In Democracy in America , Alexis de Tocqueville praised America’s egalitarian society , but warned against the tyranny of an ignorant majority and the possibility of its democracy...
Benefits, Work, and Poverty
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History & Sociology
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7 years ago
Back in 2014 Paul Ryan declared that the War on Poverty had failed, so it was time to slash spending on anti-poverty programs. Last week the Trump Council of Economic Advisers declared not...
Not Just Papa John: There Are All Kinds of Racists
Via: bob-nelson
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History & Sociology
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7 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,...