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Be a good Influencer: We can all set a positive example as a transformative force for others to follow

Be a good Influencer: We can all set a positive example as a transformative force for others to follow

Posted by | Aug 2, 2021

People often refer to me as an influencer and ask me how I became one. They invite to influencer gatherings and put me on influencer conference panels and ask me to contribute to influencer podcasts. I’ve never been quite comfortable with that term, as it’s always felt rather hollow and meaningless: some manufactured label arbitrarily affixed to people in order to artificially elevate them. I think of people who are known simply for being known. But lately I’ve come to embrace it, to own it, to celebrate it. Yeah, I am an influencer. You are, too. Influencers are simply...

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COVID-19 Funerals: Grieving families can receive sizable financial aid if they can navigate FEMA’s bureaucracy

COVID-19 Funerals: Grieving families can receive sizable financial aid if they can navigate FEMA’s bureaucracy

Posted by | Jul 31, 2021 |

Shenora Staten-Jordan felt lost when her father, Gary Lee Staten, died of COVID-19 in May. She had not expected to lose him so soon at age 61, or for a contagious disease to hinder her goodbye. All of that only strengthened her Milwaukee family’s wishes to give Staten — a beloved father and grandfather who spent 30-plus years serving Milwaukee Public Schools — the type of homegoing service he deserved, she said. “We look at the news every day and we are seeing numbers of COVID-19 cases, and people that have lost their lives to COVID-19,” Staten-Jordan said. “And...

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A Culture of Unaccountability: Republicans turned away from personal responsibility long before COVID

A Culture of Unaccountability: Republicans turned away from personal responsibility long before COVID

Posted by | Jul 31, 2021 |

“It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions,” declared Ronald Reagan at the 1968 Republican National Convention. By the time he became president 12 years later, this idea – that individuals can be trusted to act wisely and should be held accountable when they don’t – was firmly entrenched in Republican rhetoric. Reagan even included “personal responsibility” in his list of America’s bedrock values, right up there with faith in God, honesty, and caring for others. But those days are long over – and the conservative movement’s nationwide anti-vaccination effort proves...

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Police officers deliver emotional testimony about the day Trump sent domestic terrorists to attempt a coup

Police officers deliver emotional testimony about the day Trump sent domestic terrorists to attempt a coup

Posted by | Jul 28, 2021 |

In early July, the Bullock Texas State History Museum cancelled a book event three and a half hours before it was supposed to start. After Representatives Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Liz Cheney (R-WY) opened the hearing, Sergeant Aquilino Gonell and and Officer Harry Dunn of the Capitol Police, and Officer Michael Fanone and Officer Daniel Hodges of the Metropolitan Police, recounted hand-to-hand combat against rioters who were looking to stop the election of Democrat Joe Biden and kill elected officials whom they thought were standing in the way of Trump’s reelection. They gouged eyes, sprayed chemicals, shouted the N-word,...

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A well regulated White Militia: America’s obsession with guns remains rooted in the subjugation of Blacks

A well regulated White Militia: America’s obsession with guns remains rooted in the subjugation of Blacks

Posted by | Jul 28, 2021 |

A series of slave revolts terrified White residents and helped fuel the rationale for gun ownership. Bodies are piling up all over the second amendment as two of America’s pandemics converge. The “plague of gun violence” and the inability to mount an effective response, even in the wake of multiple mass shootings, is, unfortunately, rooted in the other pandemic gripping the United States: anti-Blackness and the sense that African Americans are a dangerous threat that can only be neutralized or stopped by a well-armed White citizenry. For too long, the second amendment has been portrayed with a founding fathers...

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Celebrating a Black Greek-Nigerian immigrant who won the NBA title while stoking anti-immigrant fear

Celebrating a Black Greek-Nigerian immigrant who won the NBA title while stoking anti-immigrant fear

Posted by | Jul 26, 2021

The Bucks made history, and Giannis Antetokounmpo, the son of Nigerian parents who migrated to Greece, made the American Dream his reality. Unfortunately, that’s a dream that now hundreds of thousands of immigrant people in the United States feel is unobtainable, and it’s a dream that over 13 million undocumented people in the US know only exists in their sleep. While Giannis was born in Greece, because of his parents’ Nigerian background, he was denied Greek citizenship while he was growing up. This prevented him from getting health care, civil service jobs, and more. So he sold watches and...

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