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Japan one week later. Minnesota’s lawmakers want to make it illegal for poor people to receive more than $20 cash from public assistance each month. (The initial bill would have made it illegal for poor folks to receive any cash.) How do you change a school’s culture? This is your War on Drugs: An 86-year-old Read More

Bet you weren’t up on the plight of the blackstronaut and the story of The Old Negro Space Program: On Metro Detroit’s tailspin. We’d like to stay in Michigan, but we have a problem. It’s not taxes or regulations. There’s lots of talk about these issues but they have no impact on our business. We spend more Read More

So many good things about this video. The best thing, I think, is how Monch & Co shed light on the most important issue regarding police brutality: someone is hurt/killed by the people who are charged to protect them. That individual, immediate crime shouldn’t be forgotten, or made smaller by people who want to jump Read More

The Internet again justifies its existence: “In 1978, [Phylicia Allen (now Phylicia Rashād)] released the album Josephine Superstar, a disco Concept album telling the life story of Josephine Baker. The album was mainly written and produced by Jacques Morali and Rashād’s second husband Victor Willis, original lead singer and lyricist of the Village People. She Read More

Sorry things have been so slow around here. We’re gonna rectify this in the next few days. In the meantime, here are some links for you perusal: Justin Elliot picks the brain Faiza Patel, a national security expert, about  the myth of Islamic radicalization. There are these very oversimplified theories of radicalization. One is from a Read More

The countries neighboring the Ivory Coast are worried that violence there may spread. After being told their baby had no chance of survival, an Iowa couple was forced to see the pregnancy to term and watch the child die because state law prohibits abortion after 20 weeks. Latoya on being the token Negro on feminist Read More

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