Tuesday, July 24, 2018
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“I’m a German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose,” wrote Mr. Ozil, who was born in Germany to parents who had immigrated from Turkey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/world/europe/mesut-ozil-germany-soccer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/world/europe/mesut-ozil-germany-soccer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Monday, July 23, 2018
We Should All Know Her
An excerpt from Wired -
MEET THE WOMAN WHO ROCKED PARTICLE PHYSICS—THREE TIMES
By JOSHUA ROEBKE
IN 1963, MARIA Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since.
One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist at CERN, the laboratory near Geneva that houses the Large Hadron Collider. Wu’s name appears on more than 1,000 papers in high-energy physics, and she has contributed to a half-dozen of the most important experiments in her field over the past 50 years. She has even realized the improbable goal she set for herself as a young researcher: to make at least three major discoveries.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-woman-who-rocked-particle-physicsthree-times/?mbid=nl_072318_daily_list_p
MEET THE WOMAN WHO ROCKED PARTICLE PHYSICS—THREE TIMES
By JOSHUA ROEBKE
IN 1963, MARIA Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since.
One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist at CERN, the laboratory near Geneva that houses the Large Hadron Collider. Wu’s name appears on more than 1,000 papers in high-energy physics, and she has contributed to a half-dozen of the most important experiments in her field over the past 50 years. She has even realized the improbable goal she set for herself as a young researcher: to make at least three major discoveries.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-woman-who-rocked-particle-physicsthree-times/?mbid=nl_072318_daily_list_p
Say What?
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
Why some accents don’t work on Alexa or Google Home
By Drew Harwell
Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant are spearheading a voice-activated revolution, rapidly changing the way millions of people around the world learn new things and plan their lives.
But for people with accents — even the regional lilts, dialects and drawls native to various parts of the United States — the artificially intelligent speakers can seem very different: inattentive, unresponsive, even isolating. For many across the country, the wave of the future has a bias problem, and it’s leaving them behind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/why-some-accents-dont-work-on-alexa-or-google-home/2018/07/19/80e33222-855f-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html?utm_term=.d89f2840cf04
Why some accents don’t work on Alexa or Google Home
By Drew Harwell
Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant are spearheading a voice-activated revolution, rapidly changing the way millions of people around the world learn new things and plan their lives.
But for people with accents — even the regional lilts, dialects and drawls native to various parts of the United States — the artificially intelligent speakers can seem very different: inattentive, unresponsive, even isolating. For many across the country, the wave of the future has a bias problem, and it’s leaving them behind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/why-some-accents-dont-work-on-alexa-or-google-home/2018/07/19/80e33222-855f-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html?utm_term=.d89f2840cf04
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Again and Again and Again
This is what it's like for a black business owner in a gentrifying SF neighborhood: Racist graffiti and calls to the police for unlocking your own store. pic.twitter.com/F9lVsIaKM7— AJ+ (@ajplus) July 20, 2018
When Great Performances Hurt HBCUs
An excerpt from the Undefeated -
When Morgan State beat Grambling at Yankee Stadium, more than the score was at stake
That 1968 day changed the game for HBCU football
BY LONNAE O'NEAL
Five months after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a football game between two historically black colleges opened another field of play in the civil rights movement.
The Sept. 28 battle between what were then Louisiana’s Grambling College Tigers and Baltimore’s undefeated Morgan State Bears at Yankee Stadium marked the first time two historically black colleges or universities (HBCUs) had played in New York City.
The game was a cultural high-water mark and a commercial success, and it brought dozens of players to the attention of an NFL that had only recently merged with the upstart AFL and was thirsty for black talent. But it also set loose a cascade of events that grievously hurt the caliber of football at historically black schools.
https://theundefeated.com/features/when-morgan-state-beat-grambling-at-yankee-stadium-more-than-the-score-was-at-stake/
When Morgan State beat Grambling at Yankee Stadium, more than the score was at stake
That 1968 day changed the game for HBCU football
BY LONNAE O'NEAL
Five months after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a football game between two historically black colleges opened another field of play in the civil rights movement.
The Sept. 28 battle between what were then Louisiana’s Grambling College Tigers and Baltimore’s undefeated Morgan State Bears at Yankee Stadium marked the first time two historically black colleges or universities (HBCUs) had played in New York City.
The game was a cultural high-water mark and a commercial success, and it brought dozens of players to the attention of an NFL that had only recently merged with the upstart AFL and was thirsty for black talent. But it also set loose a cascade of events that grievously hurt the caliber of football at historically black schools.
https://theundefeated.com/features/when-morgan-state-beat-grambling-at-yankee-stadium-more-than-the-score-was-at-stake/
Saturday, July 21, 2018
The Great Debaters 2018
From the Huffington Post -
Atlanta Students Dominate Harvard Debate Competition
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blackexcellence-dominates-harvard-debate-competition_us_5b51039ce4b0cf38668f75f3
Atlanta Students Dominate Harvard Debate Competition
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blackexcellence-dominates-harvard-debate-competition_us_5b51039ce4b0cf38668f75f3
Powerful Indeed
Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a drafter of the Refugee Act of 1980, resigns from the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. This is a powerful read: pic.twitter.com/PrUBHrXDYo— Mana Yegani (@Law_Mana) July 19, 2018
Missing Mr. O
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
This conservative would take Obama back in a nanosecond
By Max Boot
How I miss Barack Obama.
And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality.
Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.11f0bc86c02d
This conservative would take Obama back in a nanosecond
By Max Boot
How I miss Barack Obama.
And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality.
Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.11f0bc86c02d
11 Year Old Turned Pain Into Profit
An excerpt from CNN -
This 11 year old was bullied for her skin color. Now, she owns a successful clothing line
By Elizabeth Elkin and Ben Burnstein
Kheris Rogers can't forget the grade school humiliation. During an assignment where the students had to draw themselves, the teacher handed the shy dark-skinned girl a black crayon instead of a brown one.
"I was the darkest of all of them," the stunning 11 year old recalls of her classmates. "But they were all African-American."
Rogers had earlier transferred from another school to escape the incessant bullying. It didn't work. Her complexion set her apart, a label she couldn't shed.
But now Rogers owns her label, literally. Her clothing line is called "Flexin' In My Complexion." The brand has caught fire among some big celebrities.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/health/sisters-anti-bullying-clothing-line-trnd/index.html
This 11 year old was bullied for her skin color. Now, she owns a successful clothing line
By Elizabeth Elkin and Ben Burnstein
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| Kheris Rogers started a clothing line with her sister after she was bullied for the color of her skin |
Kheris Rogers can't forget the grade school humiliation. During an assignment where the students had to draw themselves, the teacher handed the shy dark-skinned girl a black crayon instead of a brown one.
"I was the darkest of all of them," the stunning 11 year old recalls of her classmates. "But they were all African-American."
Rogers had earlier transferred from another school to escape the incessant bullying. It didn't work. Her complexion set her apart, a label she couldn't shed.
But now Rogers owns her label, literally. Her clothing line is called "Flexin' In My Complexion." The brand has caught fire among some big celebrities.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/health/sisters-anti-bullying-clothing-line-trnd/index.html
Lessons From Delivering Pizza
An excerpt from Thrillist -
HOW I LEARNED MORE DELIVERING PIZZA THAN I DID IN COLLEGE
By WIL FULTON
You may think being a delivery boy consists of nothing more than getting stoned and driving around (which I mean, yes it does), but the skill, effort, and knowledge required to deliver any food -- especially pizza -- is vastly underrated by society as a whole. It's an education unto itself. And an experience stuffed with more life lessons than you'd probably find on your average campus.
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/is-college-worth-it-pizza-delivery-job
HOW I LEARNED MORE DELIVERING PIZZA THAN I DID IN COLLEGE
By WIL FULTON
You may think being a delivery boy consists of nothing more than getting stoned and driving around (which I mean, yes it does), but the skill, effort, and knowledge required to deliver any food -- especially pizza -- is vastly underrated by society as a whole. It's an education unto itself. And an experience stuffed with more life lessons than you'd probably find on your average campus.
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/is-college-worth-it-pizza-delivery-job
Immigration Stats
From Axios -
https://www.axios.com/how-immigration-could-save-the-post-industrial-world-8592c074-57c5-4cec-8728-68654ea0dfec.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
https://www.axios.com/how-immigration-could-save-the-post-industrial-world-8592c074-57c5-4cec-8728-68654ea0dfec.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
Friday, July 20, 2018
Agree?
From Vulture -
Every Denzel Washington Movie, Ranked
By Will Leitch and Tim Grierson
http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/denzel-washington-movies-streaming-ranked.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Vulture%20-%20July%2020%2C%202018%20-%20Test&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20Vulture%20%281%20Year%29
Every Denzel Washington Movie, Ranked
By Will Leitch and Tim Grierson
http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/denzel-washington-movies-streaming-ranked.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Vulture%20-%20July%2020%2C%202018%20-%20Test&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20Vulture%20%281%20Year%29
Who Are They?
From the New Yorker -
The Eerie Anonymity of a Show of African-American Portraiture at the Met
By Doreen St. Félix
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-eerie-anonymity-of-a-show-of-african-american-portraiture-at-the-met?mbid=nl_Daily%20072018&CNDID=27124505&utm_source=Silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20072018&utm_content=&spMailingID=13911638&spUserID=MTMzMTgyODE2ODQxS0&spJobID=1441734394&spReportId=MTQ0MTczNDM5NAS2
The Eerie Anonymity of a Show of African-American Portraiture at the Met
By Doreen St. Félix
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-eerie-anonymity-of-a-show-of-african-american-portraiture-at-the-met?mbid=nl_Daily%20072018&CNDID=27124505&utm_source=Silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20072018&utm_content=&spMailingID=13911638&spUserID=MTMzMTgyODE2ODQxS0&spJobID=1441734394&spReportId=MTQ0MTczNDM5NAS2
Signing @ Starbucks
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
Starbucks To Open Deaf-Friendly Store Where All Baristas Know American Sign Language
The coffee giant is aiming to hire deaf and hard-of-hearing people to work at the new location.
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By Elyse Wanshel
Starbucks is taking a venti-sized step toward inclusiveness.
The coffee giant announced Thursday that it will open its first U.S. “signing store” to serve the deaf community in Washington, D.C., in October. (There is already a signing Starbucks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.)
The coffee shop will be located at 6th and H streets NE near Gallaudet University, an educational institution for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The company will hire 20 to 25 deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing individuals to staff the store. All will have to be proficient in American Sign Language.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/starbucks-deaf-friendly-store-american-sign-language_us_5b50eef2e4b0fd5c73c379ca
Starbucks To Open Deaf-Friendly Store Where All Baristas Know American Sign Language
The coffee giant is aiming to hire deaf and hard-of-hearing people to work at the new location.
headshot
By Elyse Wanshel
Starbucks is taking a venti-sized step toward inclusiveness.
The coffee giant announced Thursday that it will open its first U.S. “signing store” to serve the deaf community in Washington, D.C., in October. (There is already a signing Starbucks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.)
The coffee shop will be located at 6th and H streets NE near Gallaudet University, an educational institution for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The company will hire 20 to 25 deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing individuals to staff the store. All will have to be proficient in American Sign Language.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/starbucks-deaf-friendly-store-american-sign-language_us_5b50eef2e4b0fd5c73c379ca
Mama said, "Where there's smoke, there's fire."
Guess who's coming to dinner https://t.co/il6KVDlYcQ— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 20, 2018
An early look at Friday's front... pic.twitter.com/vlSn8akTAN
Worth $1B
In 2016, Pat McGrath created her makeup line Pat McGrath Labs. Now it's worth $1 billion. It has surpassed Kylie Cosmetics. pic.twitter.com/KSgg17alKN— Affinity Magazine (@TheAffinityMag) July 18, 2018
Thursday, July 19, 2018
He Grabbed Her A**, She Knocked Him Down!
From the Daily Mail -
Just desserts: Waitress turns tables on customer who grabbed her backside when she tackles him, throws him to the ground and gives him a piece of her mind (before police arrest him)
By ALEX GREEN FOR MAILONLINE
A young waitress got her own back on a man who grabbed her backside - by throwing him to the floor and giving him a very public shaming.
Emelia Holden, 21, was taking orders at Vinnie Van Go-Go's in Savannah, Georgia, when the man walked past and touched her bottom.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5970019/Customer-grabs-waitresss-backside-tackles-throws-ground.html#v-5997726030057851911
Just desserts: Waitress turns tables on customer who grabbed her backside when she tackles him, throws him to the ground and gives him a piece of her mind (before police arrest him)
By ALEX GREEN FOR MAILONLINE
A young waitress got her own back on a man who grabbed her backside - by throwing him to the floor and giving him a very public shaming.
Emelia Holden, 21, was taking orders at Vinnie Van Go-Go's in Savannah, Georgia, when the man walked past and touched her bottom.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5970019/Customer-grabs-waitresss-backside-tackles-throws-ground.html#v-5997726030057851911
This is How They Do It
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
Vienna’s Affordable Housing Paradise
Public housing is the accommodation of last resort in the U.S. Not so in Austria’s capital city.
By Adam Forrest On Assignment For HuffPost
Uwe Mauch has called Vienna “home” for more than 30 years. The 52-year-old Austrian journalist and writer lives in a subsidized apartment in the north of the European city, in one of the many low-cost housing complexes built around leafy courtyards by the municipal government.
Mauch pays 300 euros, or the equivalent of $350, a month in rent for his one-bedroom apartment ― only 10 percent of his income.
“It’s great ― I’m really happy living here,” he says. “I like all the green space right outside my window. When people from other countries visit, they can’t believe it’s so nice and also so cheap.”
With its affordable and attractive places to live, the Austrian capital is fast becoming the international gold standard when it comes to public housing, or what Europeans call “social housing” ― in Vienna’s case, government-subsidized housing rented out by the municipality or nonprofit housing associations. Unlike America’s public housing projects, which remain unloved and underfunded, the city’s schemes are generally held to be at the forefront not only of progressive planning policy but also of sustainable design.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vienna-affordable-housing-paradise_us_5b4e0b12e4b0b15aba88c7b0
Vienna’s Affordable Housing Paradise
Public housing is the accommodation of last resort in the U.S. Not so in Austria’s capital city.
By Adam Forrest On Assignment For HuffPost
Uwe Mauch has called Vienna “home” for more than 30 years. The 52-year-old Austrian journalist and writer lives in a subsidized apartment in the north of the European city, in one of the many low-cost housing complexes built around leafy courtyards by the municipal government.
Mauch pays 300 euros, or the equivalent of $350, a month in rent for his one-bedroom apartment ― only 10 percent of his income.
“It’s great ― I’m really happy living here,” he says. “I like all the green space right outside my window. When people from other countries visit, they can’t believe it’s so nice and also so cheap.”
With its affordable and attractive places to live, the Austrian capital is fast becoming the international gold standard when it comes to public housing, or what Europeans call “social housing” ― in Vienna’s case, government-subsidized housing rented out by the municipality or nonprofit housing associations. Unlike America’s public housing projects, which remain unloved and underfunded, the city’s schemes are generally held to be at the forefront not only of progressive planning policy but also of sustainable design.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vienna-affordable-housing-paradise_us_5b4e0b12e4b0b15aba88c7b0
The Buffoon Falls on His Face
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2018-07-30?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
Unintended Consequences of Going Green
An excerpt from the Boston Globe -
Going green is cutting into hotel housekeepers’ livelihoods
By Katie Johnston
For hotel guests who care more about saving water and electricity than they do about clean towels and a freshly scrubbed tub, opting out of housekeeping seems like the right thing to do. The incentives offered to some of those who decline cleaning services — rewards points, restaurant discounts, even having a tree planted — make it even more enticing.
But the housekeepers who would otherwise be cleaning these rooms, many of them immigrants, say the increasingly popular programs are cutting into their livelihoods by reducing their hours, making their schedules more erratic, and — ironically — making their jobs harder. That’s because rooms that go without housekeeping for several days are often a wreck — trash piled up, shower doors coated in gunk, crumbs in the carpet, and hair everywhere.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/07/18/going-green-cutting-into-hotel-housekeepers-livelihoods/U21UsC2gJWDHPGsGWYfzAI/story.html?et_rid=606374700&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter
Going green is cutting into hotel housekeepers’ livelihoods
By Katie Johnston
For hotel guests who care more about saving water and electricity than they do about clean towels and a freshly scrubbed tub, opting out of housekeeping seems like the right thing to do. The incentives offered to some of those who decline cleaning services — rewards points, restaurant discounts, even having a tree planted — make it even more enticing.
But the housekeepers who would otherwise be cleaning these rooms, many of them immigrants, say the increasingly popular programs are cutting into their livelihoods by reducing their hours, making their schedules more erratic, and — ironically — making their jobs harder. That’s because rooms that go without housekeeping for several days are often a wreck — trash piled up, shower doors coated in gunk, crumbs in the carpet, and hair everywhere.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/07/18/going-green-cutting-into-hotel-housekeepers-livelihoods/U21UsC2gJWDHPGsGWYfzAI/story.html?et_rid=606374700&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter
If These Graves Could Talk
An excerpt from CNN -
Nearly 100 bodies found at a Texas construction site were probably black people forced into labor -- after slavery ended
By Jessica Campisi and Brandon Griggs
Months after a Texas school district broke ground on a new technical center, archaeologists there made a surprising discovery: the long-buried remains of 95 people.
The first remains were discovered in February in Sugar Land, a suburb southwest of Houston. And now officials have learned who these people probably were -- freed black people forced to work in convict labor camps.
For over a century, these graves were underground and untouched. But the finding that they likely held the remains of slaves, which researchers announced Monday, highlights an era that's largely forgotten in history -- a time when slavery was illegal, but many blacks were essentially still enslaved.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/us/bodies-found-construction-site-slavery-trnd/index.html
Nearly 100 bodies found at a Texas construction site were probably black people forced into labor -- after slavery ended
By Jessica Campisi and Brandon Griggs
Months after a Texas school district broke ground on a new technical center, archaeologists there made a surprising discovery: the long-buried remains of 95 people.
The first remains were discovered in February in Sugar Land, a suburb southwest of Houston. And now officials have learned who these people probably were -- freed black people forced to work in convict labor camps.
For over a century, these graves were underground and untouched. But the finding that they likely held the remains of slaves, which researchers announced Monday, highlights an era that's largely forgotten in history -- a time when slavery was illegal, but many blacks were essentially still enslaved.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/us/bodies-found-construction-site-slavery-trnd/index.html
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
The Word of a White Woman
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
The Word Of A White Woman Can Still Get Black People Killed
By Jessie Daniels
“In my opinion, the guilt begins with Mrs. Bryant.” With those words Mrs. Mamie Till-Mobley lay the blame for her 14-year-old son’s lynching in Mississippi on Carolyn Bryant, the white woman who testified in 1955 that Emmett Till made an advance on her.
Till’s lynching was a spark that helped ignite the civil rights movement. And until recently, historians widely agreed on this point: Emmett Till did what Bryant accused him of and, in doing so, violated a social more of the Jim Crow South, unjust as those mores were and appalling as his punishment remains. In other words, they believed Bryant. As historian John David Smith told PBS in 2003, “Till crossed the line of white propriety; he committed what whites considered a betrayal of racial lines. Till insulted Bryant’s wife and insulted the very bases of white racial control and hegemony.” Or so Carolyn Bryant claimed.
Now in her 80s, Bryant has changed the story she told under oath. In 1955, she said Till whistled at her, grabbed her by the waist and “verbally threatened her.” But last year, she told Duke University Timothy Tyson “that part’s not true.” In Tyson’s book, The Blood of Emmett Till, Bryant is quoted as saying that “nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.”
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Bryant is the foremother of contemporary white women who call the police on black people sitting in a Starbucks, barbecuing in a park or napping in a dorm. These white women know their accusations have power, are readily believed and face few consequences for words that can and do end lives.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-daniels-emmett-till-case_us_5b4e4aace4b0b15aba8972d4
The Word Of A White Woman Can Still Get Black People Killed
By Jessie Daniels
“In my opinion, the guilt begins with Mrs. Bryant.” With those words Mrs. Mamie Till-Mobley lay the blame for her 14-year-old son’s lynching in Mississippi on Carolyn Bryant, the white woman who testified in 1955 that Emmett Till made an advance on her.
Till’s lynching was a spark that helped ignite the civil rights movement. And until recently, historians widely agreed on this point: Emmett Till did what Bryant accused him of and, in doing so, violated a social more of the Jim Crow South, unjust as those mores were and appalling as his punishment remains. In other words, they believed Bryant. As historian John David Smith told PBS in 2003, “Till crossed the line of white propriety; he committed what whites considered a betrayal of racial lines. Till insulted Bryant’s wife and insulted the very bases of white racial control and hegemony.” Or so Carolyn Bryant claimed.
Now in her 80s, Bryant has changed the story she told under oath. In 1955, she said Till whistled at her, grabbed her by the waist and “verbally threatened her.” But last year, she told Duke University Timothy Tyson “that part’s not true.” In Tyson’s book, The Blood of Emmett Till, Bryant is quoted as saying that “nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.”
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Bryant is the foremother of contemporary white women who call the police on black people sitting in a Starbucks, barbecuing in a park or napping in a dorm. These white women know their accusations have power, are readily believed and face few consequences for words that can and do end lives.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-daniels-emmett-till-case_us_5b4e4aace4b0b15aba8972d4
When Native American Children Were Ripped From Their Parents' Arms - DAWNLAND trailer
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-legacy-stolen-children_us_5b4c6b47e4b0e7c958fcfff2
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When a president with no shame is backed by a party with no spine and a network with no integrity, you have two big problems. - Thomas L. Freidman
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/opinion/trump-putin-republicans.html
His Determination Was Rewarded
An excerpt from CNN -
He walked all night to be on time for his first day of work. His boss was so impressed he gave him a car
By Elizabeth Elkin and Brandon Griggs, CNN
When an Alabama college student's car broke down the night before his first day at a new job, there was one thing he knew he wouldn't do: Not show up.
So he walked to work. For 20 miles.
After he asked someone for a ride and it fell through, Walter Carr walked all night from Homewood, Alabama, south to Pelham. He needed the job at Bellhops moving company, even though his phone told him it would take him seven hours on foot.
"I've never been that person that gives up," said Carr, 20. "I've just never seen myself doing that. I can only be defeated if I allow myself to be defeated."
And what began as a man determined to get to work on time became so much more -- a community coming together to change a life.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/us/alabama-student-walks-20-miles-gets-car-trnd/index.html
He walked all night to be on time for his first day of work. His boss was so impressed he gave him a car
By Elizabeth Elkin and Brandon Griggs, CNN
When an Alabama college student's car broke down the night before his first day at a new job, there was one thing he knew he wouldn't do: Not show up.
So he walked to work. For 20 miles.
After he asked someone for a ride and it fell through, Walter Carr walked all night from Homewood, Alabama, south to Pelham. He needed the job at Bellhops moving company, even though his phone told him it would take him seven hours on foot.
"I've never been that person that gives up," said Carr, 20. "I've just never seen myself doing that. I can only be defeated if I allow myself to be defeated."
And what began as a man determined to get to work on time became so much more -- a community coming together to change a life.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/us/alabama-student-walks-20-miles-gets-car-trnd/index.html
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Monday, July 16, 2018
Siblings
From the Huffington Post -
24 Hilarious Comics About Sibling Relationships
Here’s to all the bickering, bonding and hijinks.
By Caroline Bologna
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/24-hilarious-comics-national-siblings-day_us_5ac687bce4b0337ad1e5f9df
24 Hilarious Comics About Sibling Relationships
Here’s to all the bickering, bonding and hijinks.
By Caroline Bologna
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/24-hilarious-comics-national-siblings-day_us_5ac687bce4b0337ad1e5f9df
Unbelievable!
.@realdonaldtrump derides reports with which he disagrees as “fake news,” then buys the Russian narrative hook, line, sinker, pole and boat. https://t.co/TGHurpVDKy— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 16, 2018
An early look at Tuesday's front... pic.twitter.com/BXsoZsIT4B
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