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Blacks, COVID-19: Reparations
People, who believe they have COVID-19, wait on line to be tested in Brooklyn, New York (Photo by Telangana Today) “When America catches...
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Apr 19, 20208 min read
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Mass Graves: Mass Mournings
Burying unclaimed victims of COVID-19 in New York's Potter's Field (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Is New York digging trenches for mass...
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Apr 15, 20206 min read
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AIDS and COVID-19: Silent Prejudice
An ACT UP poster that drew attention to AIDS, which the Reagan administration ignored The last virus epidemic that touched my life was...
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Apr 13, 20207 min read
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COVID-19 in Portugal: National Exams or National Health?
Two months ago, there was certainty. Now, the only certainty is change. Covid-19 has turned the world upside down. It has been difficult...
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Apr 10, 20205 min read
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Covid-19 Slams Culturally Rich Queens, N.Y.
U.S. Navy Ship Comfort passes the Statue of Liberty as it enters New York harbor. It has 1,000 beds to relieve pressure on hospitals...
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Apr 5, 20203 min read
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Walden Lost: COVID-19
Philosopher Henry David Thoreau lived on the shore of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. We want to breathe. All of us in Portugal, Europe,...
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Mar 31, 20204 min read
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"1984": Ruling Party Rewrites History
Readers will remember the chilling warning, "Big Brother is watching you," in Nineteen Eighty-Four . Depending on their age, a different...
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Mar 6, 20207 min read
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Yes, Mr. President, "Parasite" Was the Best
Director Bong Joon-ho's film also won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film The Kims live in a...
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Feb 23, 20203 min read
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Writers Applaud Human Gallantry
John Steinbeck Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech in 1962 “The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for...
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Feb 19, 20201 min read
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Obama's Photographer Had Portuguese Grandparents
Pete Souza, President Barack Obama's photographer, took this photo on Presidents' Day eight years ago. Souza, born in New Bedford,...
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Feb 17, 20201 min read
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From "Tricky Dick" Nixon to Flim-Flam Man Trump
“Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written...
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Feb 15, 20204 min read
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Feb 5, 20200 min read
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Maya Angelou Speaks to America's Soul
On The Pulse of Morning - Poem by Maya Angelou A rock, a river, a tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The...
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Jan 24, 20203 min read
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Dec 16, 20190 min read
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American Photographer Ansel Adams
"It seems unlikely that we will see again an artist like Adams. Younger photographers of integrity will presumably form their view of the...
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Dec 8, 20191 min read
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Nov 24, 20190 min read
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"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; #Poetry #ElizabethBishop
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Nov 23, 20191 min read
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New Leonard Cohen Song
Settling at last Accounts of the soul This for the trash That paid in full
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Nov 22, 20191 min read
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Ponyboy Curtis recites the poem to Johnny Cade while they are hiding at an old church in The Outsiders, a 1983 American coming-of-age...
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Nov 19, 20191 min read
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Acclaimed Novelist Ernest J. Gaines Dies
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Nov 6, 20191 min read
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