Monday, July 2, 2018
We're Doing a Lot of That Lately
From the Huffington Post -
‘We’ll Fix This’: Some Americans Celebrated Canada Day By Apologizing For Trump
“If you build a polite privacy hedge along the border, we’ll totally understand.”
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By Ed Mazza
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/canada-day-apology_us_5b39d603e4b0f3c221a23150
‘We’ll Fix This’: Some Americans Celebrated Canada Day By Apologizing For Trump
“If you build a polite privacy hedge along the border, we’ll totally understand.”
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By Ed Mazza
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/canada-day-apology_us_5b39d603e4b0f3c221a23150
Parents Who Had Kids Over 35 Can Relate
From Buzzfeed -
27 Jokes That Are Too Real For Anyone Who Had Kids After 35
"My 9-year-old described Celine Dion as 'old pretty.' Celine is a year younger than me."
By Ali Velez
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alivelez/tweets-jokes-older-parents?utm_term=.xnMw8bEY9#.fv0AJYmRE
27 Jokes That Are Too Real For Anyone Who Had Kids After 35
"My 9-year-old described Celine Dion as 'old pretty.' Celine is a year younger than me."
By Ali Velez
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alivelez/tweets-jokes-older-parents?utm_term=.xnMw8bEY9#.fv0AJYmRE
His Plan To Fix the Internet
An excerpt from Vanity Fair -
“I WAS DEVASTATED”: TIM BERNERS-LEE, THE MAN WHO CREATED THE WORLD WIDE WEB, HAS SOME REGRETS
Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
BY KATRINA BROOKE
“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., about a half-mile from the White House. Berners-Lee was speaking about the future of the Internet, as he does often and fervently and with great animation at a remarkable cadence. With an Oxonian wisp of hair framing his chiseled face, Berners-Lee appears the consummate academic—communicating rapidly, in a clipped London accent, occasionally skipping over words and eliding sentences as he stammers to convey a thought. His soliloquy was a mixture of excitement with traces of melancholy. Nearly three decades earlier, Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. On this morning, he had come to Washington as part of his mission to save it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets
“I WAS DEVASTATED”: TIM BERNERS-LEE, THE MAN WHO CREATED THE WORLD WIDE WEB, HAS SOME REGRETS
Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
BY KATRINA BROOKE
“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., about a half-mile from the White House. Berners-Lee was speaking about the future of the Internet, as he does often and fervently and with great animation at a remarkable cadence. With an Oxonian wisp of hair framing his chiseled face, Berners-Lee appears the consummate academic—communicating rapidly, in a clipped London accent, occasionally skipping over words and eliding sentences as he stammers to convey a thought. His soliloquy was a mixture of excitement with traces of melancholy. Nearly three decades earlier, Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. On this morning, he had come to Washington as part of his mission to save it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets
We Will Not Forget
An excerpt from the Capital Gazette Editorial -
Our Say: Thank you. We will not forget.
Thank you.
Thank you for the outpouring of sympathy for the terrible tragedy that took place Thursday in our Annapolis office.
We will never forget Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, Wendi Winters, John McNamara or Rebecca Smith, our five co-workers who were gunned down in a senseless attack.
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Here’s what else we won’t forget: Death threats and emails from people we don’t know celebrating our loss, or the people who called for one of our reporters to get fired because she got angry and cursed on national television after witnessing her friends getting shot.
Victims of Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis
We won’t forget being called an enemy of the people.
No, we won’t forget that. Because exposing evil, shining light on wrongs and fighting injustice is what we do.
http://www.capitalgazette.com/opinion/our_say/ac-ce-our-say-20180630-story.html
Our Say: Thank you. We will not forget.
Thank you.
Thank you for the outpouring of sympathy for the terrible tragedy that took place Thursday in our Annapolis office.
We will never forget Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, Wendi Winters, John McNamara or Rebecca Smith, our five co-workers who were gunned down in a senseless attack.
~~~~~~~~~~
Here’s what else we won’t forget: Death threats and emails from people we don’t know celebrating our loss, or the people who called for one of our reporters to get fired because she got angry and cursed on national television after witnessing her friends getting shot.
Victims of Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis
We won’t forget being called an enemy of the people.
No, we won’t forget that. Because exposing evil, shining light on wrongs and fighting injustice is what we do.
http://www.capitalgazette.com/opinion/our_say/ac-ce-our-say-20180630-story.html
Sunday, July 1, 2018
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Hashtag history
From the BBC Ideas -
https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/the-hidden-history-of-the-hashtag/p067zndc
https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/the-hidden-history-of-the-hashtag/p067zndc
Abandoned African-American Cemeteries
An excerpt from ProPublica Illinois -
I Went in Search of Abandoned African-American Cemeteries
I found a couple, and some fascinating history, too.
My interest in abandoned African-American cemeteries started in graduate school, when I was assigned to write a story about a black woman named Rose Sturdivant Young, who was leading the charge to restore an abandoned cemetery in North Carolina. Her father, mother and other ancestors are buried there.
African-American cemeteries across the country have largely been neglected, their powerful histories obscured by weeds, debris and, as much as anything, the passage of time. Few people know their locations. Fewer still know the stories of the people buried there.
When I came to ProPublica Illinois as a reporting fellow, I saw a chance to look into this issue. I focused on two cemeteries in St. Clair County, a few miles southeast of St. Louis across the Mississippi River: St. George and Booker T. Washington Cemetery. I spent time hiking the grounds with folks who are trying to unearth and preserve the histories of the cemeteries, as well as trying to keep up the cemeteries themselves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/abandoned-african-american-cemeteries-illinois-jerrel-floyd
I Went in Search of Abandoned African-American Cemeteries
I found a couple, and some fascinating history, too.
By Jerrel Floyd, Reporting Fellow at ProPublica Illinois.
My interest in abandoned African-American cemeteries started in graduate school, when I was assigned to write a story about a black woman named Rose Sturdivant Young, who was leading the charge to restore an abandoned cemetery in North Carolina. Her father, mother and other ancestors are buried there.
African-American cemeteries across the country have largely been neglected, their powerful histories obscured by weeds, debris and, as much as anything, the passage of time. Few people know their locations. Fewer still know the stories of the people buried there.
When I came to ProPublica Illinois as a reporting fellow, I saw a chance to look into this issue. I focused on two cemeteries in St. Clair County, a few miles southeast of St. Louis across the Mississippi River: St. George and Booker T. Washington Cemetery. I spent time hiking the grounds with folks who are trying to unearth and preserve the histories of the cemeteries, as well as trying to keep up the cemeteries themselves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/abandoned-african-american-cemeteries-illinois-jerrel-floyd
Canadian Bonnie and Clyde Yakety Sax
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/canadian-convenience-store-video-escape-attempt-yakety-sax.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_content=TheSlatest&utm_source=newsletter&sid=554654ea10defb39638b510d
Hall of Fame Hockey Player
An excerpt from the Undefeated -
Willie O’Ree, the first black hockey player in the NHL, tabbed for Hockey Hall of Fame
O’Ree will go in as a builder and join Grant Fuhr as only the second black NHL player to be inducted into the Hall
BY RHIANNON WALKER
Sixty years ago, O’Ree broke the color barrier in the NHL when he suited up for the Boston Bruins against the Montreal Canadiens on Jan. 18, 1958, at the Montreal Forum. That made hockey the last of the major four sports to integrate.
On Tuesday, O’Ree became only the third black player chosen for the Hockey Hall of Fame, joining 2003 inductee Grant Fuhr and 2010 inductee Angela James. While Fuhr was inducted as a player, O’Ree’s inclusion is based on the work he’s done after his 45 games (two in 1958 and 43 during the 1960-61 season) in the league. O’Ree totaled four goals and 10 assists for 14 points in his career, but over the past 20 years, O’Ree has been responsible for motivating and inspiring hundreds of black players to join the sport.
http://theundefeated.com/features/willie-oree-the-first-black-hockey-player-in-the-nhl-hockey-hall-of-fame/
Willie O’Ree, the first black hockey player in the NHL, tabbed for Hockey Hall of Fame
O’Ree will go in as a builder and join Grant Fuhr as only the second black NHL player to be inducted into the Hall
BY RHIANNON WALKER
Sixty years ago, O’Ree broke the color barrier in the NHL when he suited up for the Boston Bruins against the Montreal Canadiens on Jan. 18, 1958, at the Montreal Forum. That made hockey the last of the major four sports to integrate.
On Tuesday, O’Ree became only the third black player chosen for the Hockey Hall of Fame, joining 2003 inductee Grant Fuhr and 2010 inductee Angela James. While Fuhr was inducted as a player, O’Ree’s inclusion is based on the work he’s done after his 45 games (two in 1958 and 43 during the 1960-61 season) in the league. O’Ree totaled four goals and 10 assists for 14 points in his career, but over the past 20 years, O’Ree has been responsible for motivating and inspiring hundreds of black players to join the sport.
http://theundefeated.com/features/willie-oree-the-first-black-hockey-player-in-the-nhl-hockey-hall-of-fame/
Golfer Renee Powell
An excerpt from the Undefeated -
Golfer Renee Powell recalls the discrimination she faced on tour
While white competitors worried about making par, she had to think about staying alive
By The Undefeated
In 1967, Renee Powell became just the second African-American player to join the LPGA tour. In this video interview produced by the Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication, Powell discusses the discrimination she encountered growing up as a junior golfer and the threats of violence she received on the professional tour.
http://theundefeated.com/videos/golfer-renee-powell-recalls-the-discrimination-she-faced-on-tour/?ex_cid=ForTheCulture
Golfer Renee Powell recalls the discrimination she faced on tour
While white competitors worried about making par, she had to think about staying alive
By The Undefeated
In 1967, Renee Powell became just the second African-American player to join the LPGA tour. In this video interview produced by the Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication, Powell discusses the discrimination she encountered growing up as a junior golfer and the threats of violence she received on the professional tour.
http://theundefeated.com/videos/golfer-renee-powell-recalls-the-discrimination-she-faced-on-tour/?ex_cid=ForTheCulture
Black Girl Magic From Way Back
From the Undefeated -
From all-black clubs to all-stars
A timeline of black women’s participation in basketball, golf, gymnastics and track
BY THE UNDEFEATED
https://theundefeated.com/features/black-women-athletes-participation-in-basketball-golf-gymnastics-track-timelines/?ex_cid=ForTheCulture
From all-black clubs to all-stars
A timeline of black women’s participation in basketball, golf, gymnastics and track
BY THE UNDEFEATED
https://theundefeated.com/features/black-women-athletes-participation-in-basketball-golf-gymnastics-track-timelines/?ex_cid=ForTheCulture
SacTown Love
https://www.eater.com/2018/6/29/17489652/best-arena-food-sacramento-golden-1-video#nws=mcnewsletter
Again
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
Police attacked me for stealing a car. It was my own.
Lawrence Crosby is a PhD graduate in materials engineering.
By Lawrence Crosby
I was face down on the pavement. One police officer was kneeing me in the back, while others pulled or punched. They paid no attention to my screams identifying myself as an engineering PhD student at Northwestern University. They just kept punching. One shouted, “Stop resisting!”
The record is on the dash-cam footage: It’s nighttime. I step out of my car, bewildered at being pulled over and surrounded by police vehicles in the college town I’ve lived in for years. I hold my hands up high, shocked to see several guns pointed at me. It turns out a fellow student had called the police to report that someone was trying to steal a car. That someone was me. The car was my own. I had a key.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/police-attacked-me-for-stealing-a-car-it-was-my-own/2018/06/29/86829292-7658-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?utm_term=.50a24cf133ac&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
Police attacked me for stealing a car. It was my own.
Lawrence Crosby is a PhD graduate in materials engineering.
By Lawrence Crosby
I was face down on the pavement. One police officer was kneeing me in the back, while others pulled or punched. They paid no attention to my screams identifying myself as an engineering PhD student at Northwestern University. They just kept punching. One shouted, “Stop resisting!”
The record is on the dash-cam footage: It’s nighttime. I step out of my car, bewildered at being pulled over and surrounded by police vehicles in the college town I’ve lived in for years. I hold my hands up high, shocked to see several guns pointed at me. It turns out a fellow student had called the police to report that someone was trying to steal a car. That someone was me. The car was my own. I had a key.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/police-attacked-me-for-stealing-a-car-it-was-my-own/2018/06/29/86829292-7658-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?utm_term=.50a24cf133ac&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
Welcome
An excerpt from the New York Times -
In This House, Everyone’s Welcome
HealHaus, a new wellness studio and cafe that just opened in Brooklyn, is creating space for people of color.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/style/healhaus-wellness-bed-stuy-brooklyn.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_li_20180628&nl=nyt-living&nl_art=1&nlid=38867499emc%3Dedit_li_20180628&ref=headline&te=1
In This House, Everyone’s Welcome
HealHaus, a new wellness studio and cafe that just opened in Brooklyn, is creating space for people of color.
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| Elisa Shankle and Darian Hall on the back porch of HealHaus, the wellness studio and cafe they founded. CreditAnnie Tritt for The New York Times |
A Taste of Sweden
From the New York Times -
Receiving the Summer Solstice, the Swedish Way
By Malin Fezehai
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/27/nyregion/swedish-midsummer-nyc.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_li_20180628&nl=nyt-living&nl_art=3&nlid=38867499emc%3Dedit_li_20180628&ref=headline&te=1
Receiving the Summer Solstice, the Swedish Way
By Malin Fezehai
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/27/nyregion/swedish-midsummer-nyc.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_li_20180628&nl=nyt-living&nl_art=3&nlid=38867499emc%3Dedit_li_20180628&ref=headline&te=1
Friday, June 29, 2018
Thursday, June 28, 2018
This is Incivility
An excerpt from Upworthy -
Dan Rather had the perfect response to Trump's complaint about 'a lack of civility.'
At 86, Dan Rather has been around long enough to have serious perspective.
by Eric Pfeiffer
Dan Rather's Facebook Post -
President Trump and the GOP bemoaning a lack of civility is a hypocritical farce. It spurs an almost uncontrollable bout of forehead-slapping in disbelief.
But let's be clear about what incivility really looks like:
Incivility is lying to impugn the citizenship of the first African American president.
Incivility is threatening and mocking reporters and attacking the First Amendment protections of our free and independent press.
Incivility is destroying the environment and ignoring climate change.
Incivility is countenancing corruption and venality in the highest reaches of the White House and its cabinet.
Incivility is our government's response to Puerto Rico.
Incivility is undermining a merited investigation by respected law enforcement officials and maligning the notion of an independent judiciary.
Incivility is cozying up to dictators and attacking our allies and friends.
Incivility is ripping children - even those too young to know their parent's name - from immigrants legally claiming asylum.
Incivility is endeavoring to have millions of Americans lose their health insurance.
Incivility is creating a false equivalence between Nazis and counter-protesters.
Incivility is using peaceful dissent from NFL players as a pretense for stirring the deep waters of racial injustice.
Incivility is using Twitter to lie and bully.
Incivility is just having the pathology to constantly lie in the first place.
Incivility is gaslighting your fellow citizens on issues big and small.
Incivility is trying to bar entry to the United States on account of religion.
Incivility is ignoring science and reason.
Incivility is trying to run roughshod over our constitutional protections.
These are but a few of the real incivilities that plague our moment in history. They are the actions of a man and his enablers who feel no compunction about destroying the bonds that have held this improbable nation together. We will only succeed if we have a civil society. And anything or anyone who attacks that cherished American ideal must be considered... uncivil.
http://www.upworthy.com/dan-rather-had-the-perfect-response-to-trump-s-complaint-about-a-lack-of-civility?c=upw1
Dan Rather had the perfect response to Trump's complaint about 'a lack of civility.'
At 86, Dan Rather has been around long enough to have serious perspective.
by Eric Pfeiffer
Dan Rather's Facebook Post -
President Trump and the GOP bemoaning a lack of civility is a hypocritical farce. It spurs an almost uncontrollable bout of forehead-slapping in disbelief.
But let's be clear about what incivility really looks like:
Incivility is lying to impugn the citizenship of the first African American president.
Incivility is threatening and mocking reporters and attacking the First Amendment protections of our free and independent press.
Incivility is destroying the environment and ignoring climate change.
Incivility is countenancing corruption and venality in the highest reaches of the White House and its cabinet.
Incivility is our government's response to Puerto Rico.
Incivility is undermining a merited investigation by respected law enforcement officials and maligning the notion of an independent judiciary.
Incivility is cozying up to dictators and attacking our allies and friends.
Incivility is ripping children - even those too young to know their parent's name - from immigrants legally claiming asylum.
Incivility is endeavoring to have millions of Americans lose their health insurance.
Incivility is creating a false equivalence between Nazis and counter-protesters.
Incivility is using peaceful dissent from NFL players as a pretense for stirring the deep waters of racial injustice.
Incivility is using Twitter to lie and bully.
Incivility is just having the pathology to constantly lie in the first place.
Incivility is gaslighting your fellow citizens on issues big and small.
Incivility is trying to bar entry to the United States on account of religion.
Incivility is ignoring science and reason.
Incivility is trying to run roughshod over our constitutional protections.
These are but a few of the real incivilities that plague our moment in history. They are the actions of a man and his enablers who feel no compunction about destroying the bonds that have held this improbable nation together. We will only succeed if we have a civil society. And anything or anyone who attacks that cherished American ideal must be considered... uncivil.
http://www.upworthy.com/dan-rather-had-the-perfect-response-to-trump-s-complaint-about-a-lack-of-civility?c=upw1
God Help Us
Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement, giving President Trump the chance to appoint a second judge. https://t.co/bYil5UUR4O— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 27, 2018
An early look at Thursday's front... pic.twitter.com/sMqbfavkXY
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
This is Where the Catholic Church Draws the Line?
From CNN -
'The use of rap music is not allowed in preaching,' Catholic Church suspends rapping priest
By Idris Mukhtar
Nairobi (CNN)A priest has been suspended by the Catholic church in Kenya for rapping his sermons.
On a typical Sunday at the St. Monica Catholic Church in south west Kenya, Father Ogalo would be draped in his usual church vestments for morning mass.
Later in the day, he would change into shorts, a long t-shirt and tie a red bandana tied around his head, spitting hip-hop rhymes into his mic as he entertained his congregation.
But his unconventional preaching style has landed him in hot water with Catholic Church heads.
Father Ogalo says he was simply trying to "bring the youth closer to the church," in an interview with local media.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/africa/kenya-catholic-church-suspends-priest/index.html
'The use of rap music is not allowed in preaching,' Catholic Church suspends rapping priest
By Idris Mukhtar
Nairobi (CNN)A priest has been suspended by the Catholic church in Kenya for rapping his sermons.
On a typical Sunday at the St. Monica Catholic Church in south west Kenya, Father Ogalo would be draped in his usual church vestments for morning mass.
Later in the day, he would change into shorts, a long t-shirt and tie a red bandana tied around his head, spitting hip-hop rhymes into his mic as he entertained his congregation.
But his unconventional preaching style has landed him in hot water with Catholic Church heads.
Father Ogalo says he was simply trying to "bring the youth closer to the church," in an interview with local media.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/africa/kenya-catholic-church-suspends-priest/index.html
From the Fields to the Farm
An excerpt from USA Today -
Meet the farmworker's daughter who just landed a $350K scholarship to Stanford
By Cristian Ponce
SALINAS, Calif. — Everett Alvarez High School's valedictorian will attend Stanford University this fall, and one of the world's richest couples will be picking up the $350,000 tab.
Salinas-native Angela Gomez, 17, is just one of two Monterey County students to receive the Gates Scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/26/gates-foundation-farmworkers-daughter-stanford-scholarship/737077002/
Meet the farmworker's daughter who just landed a $350K scholarship to Stanford
By Cristian Ponce
SALINAS, Calif. — Everett Alvarez High School's valedictorian will attend Stanford University this fall, and one of the world's richest couples will be picking up the $350,000 tab.
Salinas-native Angela Gomez, 17, is just one of two Monterey County students to receive the Gates Scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/26/gates-foundation-farmworkers-daughter-stanford-scholarship/737077002/
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Black Brew
An excerpt from the Root -
Meet the 1st Black Brewers of Georgia
By Montana Couser
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a black-owned brewery.
Out of the 66 breweries in Georgia, only one is owned by black people: Down Home Brewing Co. Chris Reeves and William Allen Moore, the two men behind the brewery, started canning beer in March 2018 at BlueTarp, Georgia’s smallest production brewery, east of downtown Decatur.
https://www.theroot.com/meet-the-1st-black-brewers-of-georgia-1827105562?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-06-25
Meet the 1st Black Brewers of Georgia
By Montana Couser
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| Chris Reeves and William Allen Moore of Down Home Brewery | Screenshot: WXIA-TV |
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a black-owned brewery.
Out of the 66 breweries in Georgia, only one is owned by black people: Down Home Brewing Co. Chris Reeves and William Allen Moore, the two men behind the brewery, started canning beer in March 2018 at BlueTarp, Georgia’s smallest production brewery, east of downtown Decatur.
https://www.theroot.com/meet-the-1st-black-brewers-of-georgia-1827105562?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-06-25
Another Day. Another Incident.
An excerpt from the Root -
Black Firefighter Conducting City-Mandated Inspections in Oakland Hills, Calif., Questioned by Residents, Reported to Police
By Breanna Edwards
An Oakland, Calif., firefighter doing his duty to serve his community, conducting city-mandated inspections around Oakland Hills, actually had the police called on him, and on another occasion, he was harassed questioned and recorded by a resident who thought he was suspicious even though he was in full uniform and had his fire truck parked nearby.
Again, we are witnessing black people not being able to exist without being greeted by racial biases and sometimes the outright ugly face of racism.
“It’s extremely unfortunate,” Fire Capt. Damon Covington, president of the Oakland Black Firefighters Association, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “From the outside, it certainly appears to be unfair and unwarranted. The fire service is a microcosm of the world. Racism exists in the world, and it exists in Oakland and everywhere else.”
https://www.theroot.com/black-firefighter-conducting-city-mandated-inspections-1827099670
Black Firefighter Conducting City-Mandated Inspections in Oakland Hills, Calif., Questioned by Residents, Reported to Police
By Breanna Edwards
An Oakland, Calif., firefighter doing his duty to serve his community, conducting city-mandated inspections around Oakland Hills, actually had the police called on him, and on another occasion, he was harassed questioned and recorded by a resident who thought he was suspicious even though he was in full uniform and had his fire truck parked nearby.
Again, we are witnessing black people not being able to exist without being greeted by racial biases and sometimes the outright ugly face of racism.
“It’s extremely unfortunate,” Fire Capt. Damon Covington, president of the Oakland Black Firefighters Association, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “From the outside, it certainly appears to be unfair and unwarranted. The fire service is a microcosm of the world. Racism exists in the world, and it exists in Oakland and everywhere else.”
https://www.theroot.com/black-firefighter-conducting-city-mandated-inspections-1827099670
Saying It Without Saying It
From VerySmartBrothas -
40 Ways White People Say ‘White People’ Without Actually Saying ‘White People’
By Damon Young
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/40-ways-white-people-say-white-people-without-actually-1827101126?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-06-25
40 Ways White People Say ‘White People’ Without Actually Saying ‘White People’
By Damon Young
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/40-ways-white-people-say-white-people-without-actually-1827101126?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-06-25
The Ripple Effect of High Housing Costs
An excerpt from the New York Times -
San Francisco Restaurants Can’t Afford Waiters. So They’re Putting Diners to Work.
The city offers a case study of how high housing costs alter the economics of everything else, including restaurant service.
By Emily Badger
SAN FRANCISCO — Souvla, a Greek restaurant with a devoted following, serves spit-fired meat two ways: in a photogenic sandwich, or on a photogenic salad, either available with a glass of Greek wine. The garnishes are thoughtful: pea shoots, harissa-spiked yogurt, mizithra cheese.
The small menu is so appealing and the place itself so charming that you almost forget, as a diner, that you have to do much of the work of dining out yourself. You scout your own table. You fetch and fill your own water glass. And if you’d like another glass of wine, you go back to the counter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/dining/san-francisco-restaurants-service.html
San Francisco Restaurants Can’t Afford Waiters. So They’re Putting Diners to Work.
The city offers a case study of how high housing costs alter the economics of everything else, including restaurant service.
By Emily Badger
SAN FRANCISCO — Souvla, a Greek restaurant with a devoted following, serves spit-fired meat two ways: in a photogenic sandwich, or on a photogenic salad, either available with a glass of Greek wine. The garnishes are thoughtful: pea shoots, harissa-spiked yogurt, mizithra cheese.
The small menu is so appealing and the place itself so charming that you almost forget, as a diner, that you have to do much of the work of dining out yourself. You scout your own table. You fetch and fill your own water glass. And if you’d like another glass of wine, you go back to the counter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/dining/san-francisco-restaurants-service.html
If This is Low income . . .
An excerpt from SFGate -
A six-figure salary is considered 'low income' in San Francisco, and the threshold is rising
By Michelle Robertson
The Bay Area is so expensive, earning $117,400 a year qualifies you as "low income" in some counties.
Every year the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development releases "income limits," the minimum income level required to qualify for some affordable housing programs.
To be considered "low income" in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties, a family of four must earn $117,400 a year. "Very low income" is considered $73,300.
https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/low-income-families-sf-bay-area-hud-statistics-13024580.php
A six-figure salary is considered 'low income' in San Francisco, and the threshold is rising
By Michelle Robertson
The Bay Area is so expensive, earning $117,400 a year qualifies you as "low income" in some counties.
Every year the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development releases "income limits," the minimum income level required to qualify for some affordable housing programs.
To be considered "low income" in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties, a family of four must earn $117,400 a year. "Very low income" is considered $73,300.
https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/low-income-families-sf-bay-area-hud-statistics-13024580.php
I Was There - Go Rattlers!
From the Tallahassee Democrat -
Rattler Redux: FAMU documentary celebrates 1978 championship
By Rory Sharrock
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/famu/2018/06/22/famu-documentary-celebrates-1978-championship/723104002/
Rattler Redux: FAMU documentary celebrates 1978 championship
By Rory Sharrock
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/famu/2018/06/22/famu-documentary-celebrates-1978-championship/723104002/
Monday, June 25, 2018
Firemen Save the Day
From CNN -
These kids were carrying water in pots to fill up their pool. Then firefighters stopped to help.
By Amanda Jackson
It was a hot summer day in Charlotte, North Carolina, and these kids just wanted to splash around in their kiddie pool. But the only way they had to fill it was to carry pots of water from the sink.
Thanks to their local firefighters with the assist on the water, the children were cooling off in no time.
"Today, after leaving a medical call, Engine 18 stumbled across a family desperately trying to fill up a kiddy pool by filling pots from the sink for a little boys birthday on this sweltering day," Charlotte Fire Station 18 posted on Facebook on Sunday.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/us/firefighters-fill-pool-trnd/index.html
These kids were carrying water in pots to fill up their pool. Then firefighters stopped to help.
By Amanda Jackson
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| Charlotte firefighters stopped to help fill up this pool on Sunday. |
Thanks to their local firefighters with the assist on the water, the children were cooling off in no time.
"Today, after leaving a medical call, Engine 18 stumbled across a family desperately trying to fill up a kiddy pool by filling pots from the sink for a little boys birthday on this sweltering day," Charlotte Fire Station 18 posted on Facebook on Sunday.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/us/firefighters-fill-pool-trnd/index.html
Good Dog?
From CNN -
$10 million worth of pot found, thanks to police dog
By Amanda Jackson
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/us/chicago-k9-officer-pot-bust-trnd/index.html
$10 million worth of pot found, thanks to police dog
By Amanda Jackson
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| Chicago police shared this image on Facebook showing the K-9 surrounded by the seized product. |
Christianity, Trump Style
Christianity, Trump style: “Jesus was a loser. A failed carpenter. He's a savior because he was crucified. I like people that weren't crucified.” https://t.co/NrLGWEXcRi pic.twitter.com/tiSCoPdTpX— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 25, 2018
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