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Here is a surprising twist in the developing story of the White student resource officer who lost his job after forcibly removing a Black female student from her classroom at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina earlier this week: The local NBC affiliate WIS reported that hundreds of students participated in Friday’s walkout at… Read more.
For important context on this grazing tragedy, here is an excerpt from “South Sudan Descending into the Heart of Darkness,” December 30, 2013. _________________ I joined the chorus of those heralding the birth of South Sudan as a new nation in Africa – fathered not by colonial masters but by Africans themselves. But I felt constrained to… Read more.
No doubt you’ve seen the latest video clip chronicling seemingly irreconcilable conflicts between White cops and Black folks. In the clip that went viral online on Monday, Student Resource Officer Ben Fields is seen violently flinging a female student out of her desk, dragging her to the front of the classroom, and forcefully restraining her… Read more.
According to the World Health Organization, we are experiencing a “global obesity epidemic”. The following points from its January 2015 fact sheet bear this out: Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. In 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 600 million were obese. It is… Read more.
None of my siblings or close friends enjoy car racing. Therefore, I had no one to celebrate with yesterday after Lewis Hamilton clinched his third Formula One (F1) championship, especially given that it played out against NFL Sunday. In fact, one of my NFL-loving brothers dismissed my jubilant attempts to convey the significance of Hamilton’s achievement… Read more.
Not surprisingly, Trumped-up Republicans reacted by calling for a wall between the United States and Canada too. Just kidding. [Emulating Obama] Justin Trudeau got help from youth, new voters, social media in election win… Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau outpaced his competition on Twitter on Election Day as well; there were more than 150,000 tweets to… Read more.
And here it is: “Hello,” the first new music from Adele in over three years. The single is a straightforward ballad that sends Adele’s voice flying. Following up on her 2011 album 21, an extraordinary tribute to a dead relationship with a still-beating heart, “Hello” examines doomed love… Even as she laments the end, “Hello” knows… Read more.
Prince Jackson is admitting it … there’s a chance Michael Jackson isn’t his biological parent… This started when someone trolled Prince on Twitter by saying, ‘everyone knows you are a Rowe-Klein NOT A Jackson!’ (TMZ, October 22, 2015) You knew this day would come, right? Of course, any Michael Jackson fan will recognize the allusion… Read more.
‘Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews,’ Netanyahu said [in a speech to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem late on Tuesday]. ‘And Haj Amin al-Husseini [the then Mufti of Jerusalem] went to Hitler and said, ”If you expel them, they’ll all come here.” “So what… Read more.
