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| Jimmy Heath has passed, legendary Sax player & composer (composed for Miles, Coltrane, others) Jimmy Heath passed. 97 years old. composing and performing until the very end. played with and composed for Miles, Coltrane, Charlie Parker...others. The king of Bebop swing and tight jazz arrangements. Performed with the best for 70+ years. The... |
BubbaSan | 01/19/2020 | 18 |
| Unarmed subway rider tackled and ambushed by mob of New York cops plans $1 million lawsuit Disturbing viral video may be the subject of a $1 million lawsuit after it showed a 19-year-old black man cooperating with his hands up when at least 10 New York City police officers swarmed a subway car the man was seated in and tackled him to the... |
Lauren Floyd | 01/19/2020 | 144 |
| The Daily Bucket--Ready, Steady GO! The Tualatin Valley of Northwest Oregon forms a shallow bowl, about 50 miles in diameter, with 1000-2000 foot tall eroded volcanoes walling in the lowlands, separating the region from the Coast ... |
6412093 | 01/19/2020 | 57 |
| Who's afraid of the 1619 Project? The 1619 Project , the brainchild of New York Times staff reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones , has had an impact on the foundation of the way in which we approach American history and its intertwined ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 01/19/2020 | 389 |
| "Who's "REAL"... anyway?" Who’s “REAL”… anyway? I remember watching a clip of a political rally in 2008 in which Sarah Palin (ugh… the first sign of the apocalypse) said she was so glad to be with “real ... |
PamKeithFL | 01/18/2020 | 65 |
| Richard Wolff on Capitalism, Socialism, Slavery, & Corp. Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst discusses Capitalism, Socialism, Slavery, & the Corporation. Forget about your preconceived notions. Please listen in detail. Please consider... |
Egberto Willies | 01/17/2020 | 4 |
| 8 in 10 black Americans say Trump is racist, two-thirds think it's a bad time to be black in America Donald Trump once said he’d get 95 percent of the black vote when he ran for reelection. I’m thinking no. A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll also tells a completely different story. Go figure: While personally optimistic about their own lives, black... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/17/2020 | 18 |
| Black Kos, Week In Review COMMENTARY: AFRICAN AMERICAN SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS By Black Kos Editor, Sephius1 You don't have to be a rocket scientist to be successful—unless, like Aprille Ericsson-Jackson, your goal in life is to be an aerospace engineer. Ms. Ericsson-Jackson,... |
Black Kos | 01/17/2020 | 142 |
| Trump blasted for craven decision to gut Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunch rules on her birthday Kos really needs to have more space available for the headline. Here’s the full (and much better) headline from Raw Story www.rawstory.com/...: ‘Relentlessly obsessed’ Trump blasted for ‘craven’ decision to gut Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunch... |
Eyesbright | 01/17/2020 | 109 |
| The Daily Bucket - PNW winter storm, part 2: snow The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns. We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part of the world, and to share your observations in the... |
OceanDiver | 01/17/2020 | 75 |
| Senator Kamala Harris calls for halt to GOP nominations of judges during impeachment. GOP complies. As reported in the ABA Journal: On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California, called for a halt to the advancement of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees during the impeachment proceedings against him. “During the time when... |
DigitusImpudicus | 01/16/2020 | 173 |
| Rep. Ayanna Pressley reveals stunning bald head and struggle with alopecia Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts vulnerably revealed to her critics and die-hard fans alike that she is bald on Thursday, after suffering a fierce battle with alopecia that cost her her cherished crown. "This is my official public revealing," she... |
Lauren Floyd | 01/16/2020 | 237 |
| Indians 101: American Indian religions 100 years ago, 1920 Since the founding of the United States, there had been an assumption that American Indians should abandon their religions and become Christians. By 1920, Indian religions were still illegal but, in ... |
Ojibwa | 01/16/2020 | 4 |
| WTF? Report indicts centrist Dem senate candidate, but its headline smears his progressive opponent Editorial bias against the black female progressive candidate in North Carolina’s Democratic senate primary, State Sen. Erica Smith, is on blatant display this morning in the state’s leading newspaper, McClatchy’s Raleigh News & Observer. Ignoring... |
DocDawg | 01/16/2020 | 76 |
| Racist dog whistle sounded to justify having homeless moms stormed, evicted from vacant Oakland home Black mothers and other protesters are rallying around six homeless women who refused to leave the vacant Oakland property they were evicted from last November, sparking public demonstrations calling for more affordable housing in the Bay Area and less... |
Lauren Floyd | 01/16/2020 | 107 |
| HUD will finally release $8 billion of the $18 billion illegally withheld Puerto Rico relief funds The Department of Housing (HUD) is going to release more than $8 billion in emergency disaster aid funding to Puerto Rico, sources tell Politico. There's nearly $18 billion that Congress has authorized since 2017's Hurricanes Maria and Irma that still... |
Joan McCarter | 01/15/2020 | 42 |
| Daily Bucket: sorry but even the good news is depressing The official census data hasn’t been released yet but news is trickling out of the California monarch overwintering colonies. This year so far, counts show no increase in population size over last ... |
Besame | 01/15/2020 | 140 |
| Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile. Remembering when we had a real President. He’s still my President. He gives me hope. Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez As the United States spirals into chaos, with a dangerous, lying, racist, xenophobe at the helm, ... |
Black Kos | 01/14/2020 | 185 |
| Indians 101: The horse and Great Basin Indians The Great Basin Culture Area includes the high desert regions between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. It is bounded on the north by the Columbia Plateau and on the south by the Colorado ... |
Ojibwa | 01/14/2020 | 6 |
| The Daily Bucket - winter storm in the islands The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns. We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part of the world, and to share your observations in the... |
OceanDiver | 01/14/2020 | 87 |
| Texas Democratic Party and Stacey Abrams launch huge voter registration campaign In August 2019, Stacey Abrams launched the Fair Fight 2020 campaign, a major voter protection initiative. ABC News is reporting that Abrams’ group is teaming up with Texas Democrats in a huge campaign to build off of the blue wave successes across the... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/13/2020 | 94 |
| Yurok Vice-Chair to Testify Before Congressional Committee Tomorrow Yurok Tribe press release: The Yurok Tribe is honored to announce that Vice-Chairman Frankie Myers will be providing testimony before the US House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife (WOW) at a legislative... |
Dan Bacher | 01/13/2020 | 4 |
| New study shows decreases in suicide rates for every $1 added to minimum wage Studies have concluded that suicide rates are more closely correlated with economically disadvantaged groups of people than most any other indicator. Economic hardships can push people into the territories of dismay in a way that very few other... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/13/2020 | 15 |
| Anti-Capitalist Meetup: In the eco war, plastics is the choke point on a planet-killing industry Critical attention is being focused on single-use plastic as a global waste disposal problem—one that dramatically affects our oceans, uses up landfill space, and befuddles recycling programs desperate to find legitimate recycling facilities instead of... |
Galtisalie | 01/12/2020 | 24 |