Thursday, February 17, 2022

BLACK MAN RUNNING

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by L. Smith "At the end of the day, the evidence in this case will prove that if Ahmaud Arbery had been White, he would have gone for a...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

BLACK WOMAN ARRESTED FOR READING IN A LIBRARY, 1962

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by Sister Lou Ella Hickman, I.W.B.S.   Black woman arrested for trying to read a book in a segregated library in Albany, GA. 1962.  a dark b...

THE HOUNDS OF DOGMA

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The Story of an Uncaged Mind by Katherine West At first I didn't even know there was a cage.  I knew only the wind and cold of my cliff....

MOUNDS OF BOOKS OUTSIDE OF NASHVILLE

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by Zebulon Huset My freshmen students start Fahrenheit 451 next week— today a Tennessee pastor lights back into the old chestnut   of Harr...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

TABLE FOR ONE

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by Bonnie Proudfoot Warm some olive oil, let it spread   slowly across the bottom of a saucepan, sauté chopped garlic, watch bubbles form  a...
Monday, February 14, 2022

FOR VAL I GIFT YOU—YOU

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by Joseph Hope For Val I gift you a country  without a government: without a place (segregation)  for black or white or color riot. A song a...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

"A MESHUGGENEH IS ON THE LOOSE"

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by Judith Terzi & I'm sitting here with my morning coffee watching a cockatiel  slip tail feathers through his beak. One by one....
Saturday, February 12, 2022

ELECTION DAY

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by Pilar Saavedra-Vela “Costa Rica’s Boring Elections Are a Model for the World.” — Foreign Policy , February 4, 2022 The two leading candid...
Friday, February 11, 2022

KOALA 2022

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by Stephen House Koalas are now considered an endangered species in NSW [New South Wales], Queensland and the ACT [Australian Capital Territ...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

MARJORIE'S LIQUID SALAD

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by Diane Elayne Dees Antonio Banderas is the only gazpacho policeman   we have ever known, and he still cuts a fine figure, in or out of uni...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

STATE OF EMERGENCY

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by Rémy Dambron Traffic has ground to a halt at the busiest border crossing in North America, as Canadian truckers and others angry with vac...
Tuesday, February 08, 2022

QANON AND THE BUTTERFLIES

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A Found Poem with the Species List of the National Butterfly Center by Pepper Trail Why did the National Butterfly Center in South Texas clo...
Monday, February 07, 2022

FOR KAREN, MOTHER OF AMIR

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by Jennifer Hernandez An officer with the Minneapolis Police Department SWAT team shot and killed a 22-year-old man early Wednesday morning ...
Sunday, February 06, 2022

ELECTRIC DREAMS

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by James Schwartz  ElectReon, a wireless and in-road wireless electric vehicle charging technology company, will deploy its first public wir...