The Power of Howard

An excerpt from the Undefeated -

‘This Is Us’ recognizes the power of Howard University
As a senior, I know exactly how the show’s character Randall Pearson felt visiting The Mecca for the first time
BY PAUL HOLSTON

If you didn’t catch the midseason finale of the NBC series This Is Us, you missed seeing on national television the moment a young black boy full of joy arrives on the main campus of Howard University, a place where blackness is unapologetic and excellence is vivacious.


One of the most touching moments of the show’s second season is a throwback to the ’90s in which high school junior Randall Pearson (Niles Fitch) asks his adoptive father, Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia), if he could visit the historically black university after initially filling out an application for Harvard University. Randall has been trying to figure out for a while where he would like to go to college.

After Jack agrees to plan a trip to Howard with Randall, the episode soon shifts to The Yard, the symbolic heart of the campus. The environment and the Afrocentric energy that thrives throughout The Mecca immediately overwhelms Randall. Randall and Jack then walk to the Valley on campus and are greeted by Keith, a friend of Randall’s who is a Howard freshman, and Craig, another student who is a member of my fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma (shout out to the MAB!). Keith offers to give Randall a tour, and to Randall’s surprise, he gets the comfort of being at an HBCU (historically black college or university). From walking the halls of Founders Library to eyeing a young woman who walks by him on The Yard to chilling in one of the dormitories with Nas and Lauryn Hill’s If I Ruled The World gliding in the background, the show does a great job of showing how many Howard students feel during their first experiences at The Mecca.

https://theundefeated.com/features/this-is-us-recognizes-the-power-of-howard-university/

Black Vegans

An excerpt from the NY Times -

Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes
By KIM SEVERSON

Aph Ko got tired of hearing that eating vegan was something only white people did. So in 2015, she created a list of 100 black vegans for a website. It included pioneering figures like Dick Gregory and Coretta Scott King and younger, less famous writers, filmmakers, cooks and activists.

“When you say ‘vegan,’ a lot of people tend to only think of PETA, which doesn’t reflect the massive landscape of vegan activism,” said Ms. Ko, 28, a Floridian whose favorite dish at the moment is the spinach pie in “The Vegan Stoner Cookbook.” “The black vegan movement is one of the most diverse, decolonial, complex and creative movements.”

So many other people wanted to be included on the list after it appeared, she started a website, Black Vegans Rock. That spawned a Twitter hashtag (#blackvegansrock) and a T-shirt business. In June, she published ”Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters,” a book she wrote with her older sister, Syl Ko.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/dining/black-vegan-cooking.html

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Teaching Through Giving

An excerpt from the Daily Good -

These Professors Offered Students $10,000 In Real Money. The Catch? They Had To Give It Away.
by Lindsey McDougle, David Campbell & Jodi Benenson

If someone asked you to picture a philanthropist, chances are a billionaire like Bill Gates or John D. Rockefeller Sr. would come to mind. But not all philanthropists are billionaires — or even millionaires for that matter. People who make modest gifts of time or money can make a big difference in their communities.

We are professors who teach and do research about philanthropy, the practice of expressing generosity by giving away money and, in some cases, time. We see our job as motivating and preparing college and graduate students to become future leaders of nonprofit organizations or donors with good ideas about how to make a difference, starting right now.

Teaching about giving

One approach, known as “experiential philanthropy,” teaches about charitable giving through hands-on experiences. Students get real money, typically about $10,000 per class, to give away to local nonprofits. One of us (David) has determined that these courses are being taught on more than 80 different campuses.

https://education.good.is/articles/teaching-college-students-to-give-back?utm_source=thedailygood&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailygood

This is an Apple

“Some people might try to tell you that it’s a banana.” #FactsFirst pic.twitter.com/LbmRKiGJe9

— CNN (@CNN) October 23, 2017

The Clink - Prison Restaurant

From the Daily Mail -

Prison restaurants with bars on the windows and a panic button for diners beat celebrity chefs' eateries to the top of the TripAdvisor charts
The Clink restaurant is a chain that operates at four secure prisons in England
The restaurant chain is currently  beating establishments by celebrity chefs 
TripAdvisor says that three of the four restaurants are rated No 1 in their areas
Inmates with 6 to 18 months left of their sentence can apply for the restaurant
By Ian Drury

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5119799/Prison-restaurants-beat-celebrity-chefs-eateries.html#ixzz4zdpr6Rej
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My Thoughts Exactly

An excerpt from Vox -

Why can’t This Is Us tell good stories about characters other than Randall?
A Kate-centric episode only underlines how much the show’s structure has shortchanged its characters.
by Todd VanDerWerff

Shortly after the blockbuster debut of This Is Us in 2016, I had lunch with a TV writer friend whose previous credits made me think he’d be a fan of the show. And, indeed, he had generally liked the pilot. But then he said something that stuck with me, when he explained why he wasn’t as enthusiastic about the overall series as I had expected he would be: “They only have enough story for Randall.”

Over the course of This Is Us’s now one and a half seasons, my friend’s prophecy has more or less come true. Randall and his family occupy one of the best shows on television, a beautiful story about a black adopted child who grew up in a white family, anchored by an Emmy-winning performance from Sterling K. Brown and no less exceptional work from Susan Kelechi Watson as Randall’s wife, Beth. Randall’s side of the show is everything family dramas can and should be.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/11/26/16688404/this-is-us-episode-9-recap-number-two-kate-miscarriage

Eco-Friendly Fabric

http://mashable.com/2017/11/26/ably-liquid-and-odor-repelent-clothing/#LePoiNGA7sqZ

He Didn't Have to Beg

Someone has a lot of catching up to do. #Repost @michelleandbarack ・・・ #MichelleAndBarack #Forever44 #BarackObama #MichelleObama #MaliaObama #SashaObama #Bo #Sunny #POTUS #FLOTUS #WhiteHouse #ObamaFoundation #ThankYouObama #TwoTerms #Hope #ComeBackBarack #MyPresidentWasBlack #NeverForget #Hawaii #Chicago #WashingtonDC #MakeAmericaGreatAgain

A post shared by Pete Souza (@petesouza) on Nov 25, 2017 at 12:51pm PST

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ex-obama-photographer-trolls-trump-over-time_us_5a1b1f0fe4b0cee6c050790e?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

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Flowers From Her Deceased Dad

My dad passed away when I was 16 from cancer and before he died he pre payed flowers so i could receive them every year on my birthday. Well this is my 21st birthday flowers and the last. Miss you so much daddy. 💜 pic.twitter.com/vSafKyB2uO

— Bailey Sellers (@SellersBailey) November 24, 2017

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/11/26/students-simple-homage-deceased-dad-lights-up-twitter/895964001/

60 Years in the Skies

An excerpt from the Washington Post -

Meet the woman who’s spent 60 years making the skies a little friendlier
By Lori Aratani

It’s early on a Thursday morning and flight attendant Bette Nash has just strolled up to Gate 19 at Reagan National Airport, where American Airlines Flight 2160 bound for Boston is parked and preparing for boarding.

As she pauses at the counter to adjust her scarf, a 20-something guy looks up. He lets out a gasp.

“Oh, my God,” he says excitedly. “Are you Bette Nash? Can I have your picture?”

This is what life is like when you are Nash, 81, who has been flying since Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House and a ticket for a flight cost $12.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/meet-the-woman-whos-spent-60-years-making-the-skies-a-little-friendlier/2017/11/25/04cf6054-c8ac-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.0b94c8e0d6a3&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

A Catch 22

An excerpt from the Boston Globe -

For black students, a college degree means long-term debt
By Deirdre Fernandes

Jasmine Reyes’s college degree landed her a stable post-graduation job and opened up a wealth of learning opportunities, from an internship in Los Angeles to study abroad in the Netherlands.

But for Reyes, 23, that Emerson College degree came at a sapping financial and emotional cost: a near-constant worry each semester about being able to afford the tuition, guilt over her grandmother’s decision to apply early for Social Security to help pay for her education, and ultimately, the burden of $40,000 in student loans.

“There are a lot of people who think that because I’m African-American I got to go to college for free,” said Reyes, who graduated in 2016. “But I am in so much debt. I would still do it again. But it was extremely stressful.”

Recent research and data from the US Department of Education indicate that African-American students, like Reyes, are taking a greater financial risk than other groups in going to college, even as a degree has grown increasingly vital for workers hoping to survive in the modern economy. They typically start with a smaller economic cushion, are more likely to borrow, and, on average, earn less upon graduation.

As a result, instead of bridging the racial equity gap by opening the prospect of well-paying jobs, getting a degree can actually widen the gulf in wealth between black and white adults.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/25/for-black-students-college-degree-means-long-term-debt/Hw8lOO4637pZY80QcIxDZM/story.html?et_rid=606374700&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter

Colby College Honors a Former Slave

An excerpt from the Boston Globe -

At Colby College, an honor for a former slave
By Laura Krantz

WATERVILLE, Maine — At the elite college perched on a hill overlooking this former mill town, the buildings are named as you might expect.

The library honors the parents of a graduate. The theater is named for the 17th president. The tennis pavilion for generous donors to the school.

But now Colby College will have a building named after another sort of person entirely: a former slave who was the school janitor for 37 years starting right after the Civil War — a figure both beloved and disrespected by the college in his day.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/25/colby-college-honor-for-former-slave/BzFoklN3Gpw9flJvOnZtnJ/story.html?et_rid=606374700&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter

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Black in Trump Country

An excerpt from Very Smart Brothas -

How to Survive in America When You’re Black and Your Hometown Is Donald Trump’s Base
By Raymar Hampshire

I grew up in Allen County, Ohio. I lived in the county seat of Lima and attended school in the village of Elida. The show Glee takes place in my hometown, and I have never watched a single episode of Glee, but I often use this fact to help orient people to where I grew up. I rarely visit my hometown outside of traveling there to spend time with my family during major holidays.

It feels honest and yet really vulnerable to admit this publicly. Facebook has become a window into the souls of so many people I grew up with, so much so that I often find myself unfriending them. The truth is that I have become a remarkably different person—and the place where I grew up feels like it has become a remarkably different place.

Today it seems as if the only time I bring up my hometown is when I’m having a conversation with someone about Donald Trump and we’re both shockingly/unshockingly lamenting his latest evil shenanigans. We might shake our heads thinking of his delusional supporters who are somehow able to look past it all.

These conversations happen almost daily. It’s in these conversations that I “rep” my hometown—mostly to prove that because I’m from a town of overwhelmingly white Trump supporters, I understand their delusions better than most.

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/how-to-survive-in-america-when-you-re-black-and-your-ho-1819882549

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25 Blackest Sports Moments of 2017

An excerpt from the Undefeated -

The top 25 blackest sports moments of 2017
If you don’t understand why these moments are important, you might need more black friends
By Clifton Yates

Black Friday. The day when people decide that the only way they can make themselves feel better about whatever they just went through with their families on Thanksgiving is with a whole lot of retail therapy. It’s the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season, and according to the National Retail Federation, Americans are expected to spend an average of $967.13 each before the end of the year. That adds up to a cool $682 billion.

But forget all that. We black. So we’ll take this opportunity to reclaim our time and get back to using ham-handed puns for the culture. A point of clarification: There are a variety of items on this list. Some are groundbreaking accomplishments. Others are moments that made us laugh. A few are things that we might actually regret.

By the by, we’re doing this bad boy college football style. If you don’t understand why these moments are important, you might need more black friends.

https://theundefeated.com/features/the-top-25-blackest-sports-moments-of-2017/

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The Guest List

An excerpt from the Root -

The Caucasian’s Guide to Black Thanksgiving, Part 1: The Guest List
By Michael Harriot

Aunts

The first thing you must know about the black family tradition is that the nomenclature assigned to relatives has nothing to do with the traditional definitions assigned by white people to their family members. For white people, an “aunt” refers to a woman who is the sister of their mother or father. This does not hold true in the black community.

In the black community, an aunt is any woman more than 15 years older than you who has been around the family for more than 10 years. Every lady on the street where you grew up is an aunt. All women on the usher board at your place of worship are aunts. And it is pronounced “aww-went,” not “ant.”

https://www.theroot.com/the-caucasians-guide-to-black-thanksgiving-part-1-the-1820643386?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017-11-23

He's Using the Same Old Playbook

Excerpts from the Huffington Post -

There’s A Reason Powerful Americans Love To Attack Black Sports Figures
Donald Trump is just keeping with a long tradition in this country.
By Travis Waldron

Powerful white Americans have been scoring political points off black athletes for as long as there have been organized sports in America. In this respect, at least, Donald Trump is a traditionalist.

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If this has become a familiar routine for Trump, it is because it is a familiar one for America. The country has never been comfortable with assertive black sports figures. Despite all the caterwauling about athletes who refuse to “stick to sports,” powerful Americans have always understood the mere presence of black athletes to be fundamentally political, a threat to the larger project of black subordination. And if black athletes themselves could no longer be kept out of sports, the culture at large would have to circumscribe their behavior, crush any outward assertiveness, segregate their blackness.

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The point of all of this was easy to see: if black athletes could assert themselves in the ring or on the baseball field, black people could assert themselves everywhere else, too. If black athletes weren’t forced to stay in their place, black people wouldn’t be compelled, either. And so laws were passed, and policies were implemented, to ensure the absence of black athletes who could give voice to black people.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-white-america-black-athletes_us_5a15db6ce4b064948072a8c4?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

Becoming Kareem

https://soundcloud.com/entertainmentweekly/becoming-kareem-excerpt/s-RM7Yf

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Apology Generator

An excerpt from Upworthy -

The Celebrity Perv Apology Generator is hilariously, depressingly accurate.
The results from this website could easily be real celebrity apologies.
by Parker Molloy

Author Dana Schwartz jokingly tweeted plans to start "a small business ghostwriting half-hearted apologies for celebrity pervs." Within 24 hours, it became a reality.

Teaming up with designers Rob Sheridan and Scott McCaughey, Schwartz launched the Celebrity Perv Apology Generator, where anyone can go and get their very own half-assed apology for free. It's satire at its best, reflecting non-apologies back on the celebrities who give them.

"Please consult for all your celebrity perv apology needs," Schwartz tweeted.

http://www.upworthy.com/the-celebrity-perv-apology-generator-is-hilariously-depressingly-accurate?c=upw1

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A Lovely Library

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History Lesson

An excerpt from Atlas Obscura -

Meet Ann Gregory, Who Shattered Racist and Sexist Barriers in the Golf World
An unheralded sports pioneer, she was known as “The Queen of Negro Women’s Golf.”
BY NATASHA FROST

IN 1959, ON A WARM August evening in Bethesda, Maryland, Ann Moore Gregory ate a hamburger and went to bed. That night, every other player in the United States Golf Association Women’s Amateur tournament, which began the next day, was eating a traditional players’ dinner at the Congressional Country Club. But Gregory, the only African-American player in the tournament, had been barred from the clubhouse. So, she said later, she ate by herself. She was “happy as a lark. I didn’t feel bad. I didn’t. I just wanted to play golf, they were letting me play golf,” she said. “So I got me a hamburger, and went to bed.”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ann-gregory-golf-african-american-civil-rights

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Gift Air Travel This Holiday

An excerpt from Conde Nast Traveler -

The Skyhour App Is the Easiest Way to Gift Air Travel
by Betsy Blumenthal

We know what we’re asking for this holiday season.

Rather than receiving yet another cable-knit sweater from your great aunt this Christmas, imagine that you’re instead gifted four ‘skyhours’—at $60 each, that’s $240 toward the flight for your next vacation.

That’s the aim of Skyhour, a new app designed to simplify the process of gifting air travel. Launched on October 23 with backing (and industry guidance) from JetBlue Technology Ventures, the corporate venture arm of JetBlue Airways, the platform aspires to make gifting and receiving flights a seamless, single-site process.

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You don’t need to register with Skyhour to gift hours—pretty convenient when you're running to that birthday party and totally forgot to buy a present—but you do need to set up an account in order to claim them, and create a profile that contains some personal details (name, e-mail, age) and your passport information. Recipients can then apply the hours they’ve received to their selection, and, presto! They’re going to Mexico. Fortunately, for those of us who already know what we want for our birthday (hey, six months isn’t that far away), you can also request hours.

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-skyhour-app-is-the-easiest-way-to-gift-air-travel

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Asked how Trump's un-presidential behaviour will influence future presidents, Biden dryly replied: “I think it will, God willing, go down as the single exception in American history.”

http://mashable.com/2017/11/14/joe-biden-donald-trump-presidency-stephen-colbert/#q9Mj3a.EgOqb

Another FAMU Success Story

An excerpt from IndieWire -

‘Mudbound’: Dee Rees, Faith, and the Long Path She Took to Make Her Epic Oscar Contender
With festival hit "Mudbound," Dee Rees proves what she can do with a sprawling southern drama of scale and scope. Netflix backing may prove to be an advantage.
By Anne Thompson

Dee Rees is a tall woman of fierce charisma. She’s the kind of director who talks fast, ideas coming so quickly that those less inclined can barely keep up. And yet her output has been slow: After Focus Features snapped up her breakout 2011 feature debut “Pariah” at Sundance, it was four years before HBO Film’s Emmy and DGA-award-winning 2015 biopic “Bessie.”

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When Rees left Nashville for college, her Methodist Church staged its annual rite of passage: Students declared their schools and accepted small scholarships from the community. “I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics,” Rees said in an interview at a Netflix conference room. “This older woman, Miss Dunlap, pressed a handful of change in my hand, probably what she would have put in the communion basket. She’s giving me a fistful of coins, but I felt it was so much more. I just got how important it was. I was intending to make my parents proud and do well, but I felt the weight of those coins. There was no turning back, not having done the thing.”

Rees brought that moment into her adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s post-World War II novel. (Rees shares credit with Virgil Williams.) When Ronsel Jackson (“Straight Outta Compton” star Jason Mitchell) leaves home to join the Army, his mother Florence (Mary J. Blige) turns her back as he departs. Rees was inspired by her paternal grandmother, who thought it bad luck to watch someone going away. “I wanted to set the stakes,” said Rees. “You wouldn’t feel Ronsel’s coming home if we didn’t see him leaving. It was important to show that he was a son of the community and everybody’s investment is riding on him.”

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/11/dee-rees-mudbound-director-oscars-netflix-1201895509/

First African-American Woman to Graduate from Vassar

An excerpt from Variety -

Zendaya to Star in, Produce Movie About First African-American Woman to Graduate From Vassar
By Dave McNary

Zendaya will produce and star in the thriller “A White Lie,” playing the first African-American woman to graduate from Vassar College, Variety has learned.

The project is based on Karin Tanabe’s book “The Gilded Years,” which told the true story of Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned, African-American woman who was the descendant of slaves and passed as white so she could attend Vassar during the 1890s. She’s pulled into her elite world where she’s treated as a wealthy, educated white woman who finds romance with a moneyed Harvard student.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/zendaya-a-white-lie-anita-hemmings-1202614131/

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Hijab Barbie

From the New Yorker -

Barbie Gets a Hijab
By Christina Binkley

Mattel’s Barbie modelled on the American fencer
Ibtihaj Muhammad has muscular legs and wears a hijab.
Photograph courtesy Mattel

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/barbie-gets-a-hijab?mbid=nl_Daily%20111417%20Subs&CNDID=27124505&spMailingID=12357255&spUserID=MTMzMTgyODE2ODQxS0&spJobID=1281339144&spReportId=MTI4MTMzOTE0NAS2

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History Maker

An excerpt from Salon - (Bold is mine)

This week Tiffany Haddish makes “Saturday Night Live” history. That’s not funny
The “Girls Trip” star is the first black female comic to host “Saturday Night Live.” Ever. Let that one sink in
By MELANIE MCFARLAND

“Can you believe I will be the very #first black female comedian host?!?” she asked in a Nov. 7 tweet and Instagram post.

Can I believe it? Actually yes, I can. And I submit that answer with a mixture of emotions. Haddish, the breakout star of the surprise theatrical hit “Girls Trip,” is a tremendous comedian deserving of a higher profile. What’s more, “SNL” is featuring her just as her career is taking off; following a stint on NBC’s underappreciated summer comedy “The Carmichael Show,” she’s set to co-star in Tracy Morgan’s upcoming TBS comedy “The Last O.G.” (which, along with “Girls Trip,” is probably the reason she landed this hosting gig).

Indeed, Haddish deserves applause for making history, something I’d say is increasingly difficult to do in a show that’s been on the air for 43 seasons and has had 566 hosts as of this writing.

https://www.salon.com/2017/11/11/this-week-tiffany-haddish-makes-saturday-night-live-history-thats-not-funny/

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Impressive

From Atlas Obscura -

World's Largest Beaver Dam
The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-largest-beaver-dam

The Perfect Pie Crust

https://cooking.nytimes.com/guides/3-how-to-make-a-pie-crust

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Surprised? Hardly.

An excerpt from the New York Times -

Jesus’ Parents and Roy Moore’s Gall
By Frank Bruni

Are you really surprised? If so, you might want to see a doctor about your amnesia, because my memory is pretty spotty and still I can recall Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker and Larry Craig and David Vitter, and with just a few minutes of Googling, I could fill the rest of this column with more names of more pastors and politicians who presented themselves as steadfast moral conservatives and were revealed to be agents of precisely the kind of behavior they so exuberantly condemned. These frauds and hypocrites are as legion now as lepers were in the days of Jesus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/opinion/sunday/roy-moore-molestation.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

Trump vs. the US Constitution

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/11/opinion/editorials/President-Trump-Please-Read-the-Constitution.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

The Noise

An excerpt from the Players' Tribune -

The Noise
By Stephen Curry

I’m a person who is comfortable in his own skin. I’m 29 now. I’ve got two daughters, a wonderful wife, two amazing parents. I’ve been all over this country, from Charlotte to the Bay. And I feel confident in the fact that I’ve developed a foundation for my character that I can be proud of. I know what I believe in, and I know what I stand for.

And I know what I stand against.

But when someone tells me that my stances, or athlete stances in general, are “disrespecting the military” — which has become a popular thing to accuse peaceful protestors of — it’s something that I’m going to take very, very seriously. One of the beliefs that I hold most dear is how proud I am to be an American — and how incredibly thankful I am for our troops. I know how fortunate I am to live in this country, and to do what I do for a living, and to raise my daughters in peace and prosperity. But I also hear from plenty of people who don’t have it nearly as good as I do. Plenty of people who are genuinely struggling in this country. Especially our veterans.

And every single veteran I’ve spoken to, they’ve all said pretty much the exact same thing: That this conversation we’ve started to have in the world of sports … whether it’s been Colin kneeling, or entire NFL teams finding their own ways to show unity, or me saying that I didn’t want to go to the White House — it’s the opposite of disrespectful to them.

A lot of them have said, that even if they don’t totally agree with every position of every person, this is exactly the thing that they fought to preserve: the freedom of every American to express our struggles, our fears, our frustrations, and our dreams for a more equal society.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/stephen-curry-veterans-day/

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Tiffany Haddish Monologue - SNL

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Beauty And The Beast

More on Moore

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/republicans-divided-over-roy-moore-1093548611831

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Things That Will Get You Thrown in Jail in Dubai

An excerpt from the New York Times -

Holding Hands, Drinking Wine and Other Ways to Go to Jail in Dubai
By ROD NORDLAND

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Scottish electrician named Jamie Harron, visiting Dubai as a tourist, was sentenced to three months in jail for touching a man in a bar.

The British head of a professional soccer team, David Haigh, was ordered jailed for seven months for a tweet that he says could not have been from him — since he was already in jail without a phone.

An Australian aid worker living in Dubai, Scott Richards, was locked up for trying to raise money to buy blankets for freezing Afghan children, because he was not part of a recognized charity.

Dubai, one of the seven United Arab Emirates, portrays itself as welcoming to foreigners. Its boosters claim it is the fourth most-visited tourism destination in the world, and it has at least 12 times as many foreign residents as citizens.

But a legal system based on a hard-line interpretation of Shariah law often lands foreigners in jail for offenses that few Westerners would dream were even crimes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/world/middleeast/dubai-crimes-united-arab-emirates-jail.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

New Rule: Checking In On Jared | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Former Felons Voting Again

Diverse Books For Kids

An excerpt from the Huffington Post -

This Database Is Filled With 1,300 Diverse Books For Kids
It highlights characters of color and topics like adoption and immigration.
By Taylor Pittman

Parents looking for picture books featuring characters of color and highlighting important subjects like immigration, LGBTQ topics and environmental issues now have a helpful resource in the Diverse BookFinder.

Created with help from Bates College in Maine and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Diverse BookFinder site offers information on 1,300 picture books that can help kids have a more balanced and equal bookshelf.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-database-is-filled-with-books-about-people-of-color-and-lgbtq-issues_us_5a03544fe4b0f76b05c2de2f?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

https://diversebookfinder.org/?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

You Know You're British When . . .

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The Races That Jump-Started the Self-Driving Car | WIRED

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One More Reason Not To Elect Roy Moore

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Get a Whole Row

From the Huffington Post -

This App Ups Your Chances Of Getting An Entire Airplane Row To Yourself
By Jamie Feldman

What if dreams could come true, and there were a way to increase your chances of guaranteeing an entire row to yourself on your next flight? Brace yourself.

Gilbert Ott from travel blog God Save the Points recently shared information with readers about ExpertFlyer, an app that tracks airlines’ seating charts in real time, giving travelers the ability to change their seats as space opens up.

Plenty of airlines allow you to pick your seat when you purchase your ticket, but ExpertFlyer monitors the available seats between the time when you book and when you fly. So, if a window or aisle seat becomes available, you can swap it by calling the airline or, if you’re at the airport, asking at the gate.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/airplane-seat-hack_us_5a009a0ce4b04cdbeb3521ca?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

https://www.expertflyer.com

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on race, hope and speaking out

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"I'd Rather Be the First Alma"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/12-year-old-prodigy-could-be-as-gifted-as-mozart/

Aretha

https://soundcloud.com/arethafranklin

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A Gospel Choir Goes to China

http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/features/brooklyn-gospel-choir-goes-china

In Class With Samuel L. Jackson

An excerpt from BlackAmericaWeb -

Samuel L. Jackson To Teach Online Acting Masterclass
By Ny Magee

Actor Samuel L. Jackson is going to teach an online acting class in collaboration with MasterClass.

As reported by Variety, “Jackson will deliver wisdom and pointers culled from playing more than 100 roles over his 45-year film career.” The course will be available for a one-time $90 fee. His class is slated to premiere sometime this winter.

Jackson’s Masterclass joins a lineup of celebrity instructors who have also shared their expertise, including Martin Scorsese, Shonda Rhimes, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey and Steve Martin.

https://blackamericaweb.com/2017/11/01/samuel-l-jackson-to-teach-online-acting-masterclass/

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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "Call on God" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-sharon-jones-dap-kings-intimate-call-on-god-video-w510770