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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 27, 2020
- 6 min
The Unexpected This Flu Season
I have been on the prowl for a flu vaccine. To no avail, I have made a few weekly visits in Portugal's Beiras to the village pharmacy in ...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 24, 2020
- 9 min
Fighting the Stench of Poverty
Environmental activist Catherine Coleman Flowers stands over a pool of raw sewage outside a home in White Hall, Alabama (Photo by Bob Mil...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 17, 2020
- 12 min
Anybody Home? (A Short Play)
The artists, Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur, reimagined Norman Rockwell's "Freedom From Want", the iconic 1943 homage to American abun...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 13, 2020
- 7 min
Don't Wait: Get Unwell Children Seen in Pandemic
Tagan Ja’Nae Marie Drone, 5, died hours after testing positive for COVID-19. Distraught parents of a kindergartener, who died hours after...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 8, 2020
- 2 min
How to Leave Abusive Trump
The Joe Biden/Kamala Harris win sparked spontaneous celebrations around the U.S., including Black Lives Matter Plaza outside the White Ho...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 5, 2020
- 2 min
Counting Votes, Picking Olives: Honest Work
After the harvest in Ervedal da Beira, Coimbra district in Portugal We spread voluminous green mesh mats around olive trees to catch the ...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 1, 2020
- 6 min
Idaho Will Go Its Own Way in 2020 Race
Idaho Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin displays a bible and a handgun as she recites a line from the state Constitution in an Idaho F...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Oct 26, 2020
- 6 min
Biden Injects Energy Into 2020 Race
Biden advocates clean renewable energy (wind and solar); Trump supports dirty old sources (oil and gas) (Photo by International Renewable...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Oct 20, 2020
- 7 min
Last Stand for Whales, Humans
Herman Melville, who created the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, could not imagine the extinction of the sperm whale. Nineteenth-century write...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
Whales May Have Followed Leader to Mass Death
A team of 60 used slings and other equipment to help pull the whales off the sandbanks (Photo by Brodie Weeding/AFP/Getty Images) The lon...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Oct 6, 2020
- 5 min
Navajo Water Is Scarce, Not Cheap
Emma Robbins’ grandparents used to live in a traditional hogan like the one above, pictured with a 275-gallon water tank outside. In 2016...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Oct 6, 2020
- 5 min
Navajo Water Is Scarce, Not Cheap
Emma Robbins’ grandparents used to live in a traditional hogan like the one above, pictured with a 275-gallon water tank outside. In 2016...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Sep 30, 2020
- 6 min
Love It and Leave It: Portugal and America
Some nations view themselves as havens; others as countries with a history of diaspora. The United States falls into the former category,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Sep 22, 2020
- 14 min
Who Drank the Kool-Aid, President Trump
Peoples Temple literature showcases its utopia at Jonestown, Guyana “. . . Do you have any sense that that privilege has isolated and put...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Sep 19, 2020
- 3 min
Cynthia Adina X
My great grandfather, James Kirkwood, was a police constable in St. Ann, Jamaica. But who were his parents? The awakening of more of the ...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Sep 12, 2020
- 5 min
Escaping the Matrix
The Social Dilemma, a Netflix documentary, calls for the collective will to demand regulation of social media, which is hurting humanity....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Sep 6, 2020
- 6 min
Din of Anger Shouts Down Reconciliation
Festa do Avante!, the annual Portuguese Communist Party festival, was limited to 16,563 attendees because of the COVID-19 pandemic (Photo...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 30, 2020
- 5 min
Republicans Incite Fear of Violence
When I wrote an opinion piece for a British newspaper about the overseas image of gun-toting Americans, I wrote about the skewed view of ...
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