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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 10, 2020
- 5 min
Ghana Calling African Americans Home
The flag of Ghana inverts Ethiopia’s green-yellow-red Lion of Judah flag and replaces the lion with a black star. Red symbolizes...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 3, 2020
- 4 min
Camus’ Absurdist View of Plague
Enjoy the view while you are here. As a little girl, my mother taught me this prayer, which I said on my knees each night before...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 27, 2020
- 2 min
Steadfast Statesman John Robert Lewis
(February 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020) Photo by Folhapress An American titan in the struggle for racial justice, whose path was...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 25, 2020
- 3 min
Being White Is Not Being Black
Some of the many faces in my family's country of Belize When a college classmate said that I was in an interracial marriage, I was...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 24, 2020
- 5 min
From "Tricky Dick" Nixon to Flim-Flam Man Trump
"Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 14, 2020
- 3 min
Sell Pizazz in COVID-19 World
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wears masks with panache. Most of her face coverings are from Donna Lewis (Photo by Elle) Sell change of...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 10, 2020
- 5 min
No One Is "Corona-Proof"
Albufeira's mayor said that the municipality will raise awareness among establishment owners about COVID-19 laws. (Photo by SIC Noticias)...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 4, 2020
- 6 min
Ron Settles' Jail Hanging Grieves Me Still
Ron Settles, a star football player at California State University in Long Beach (By Joseph Holliday) I feel crowded out by the dead. In...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 26, 2020
- 5 min
COVID-19 Fatigue Kills
Beachgoers in Britain defied social distancing on hottest days of the year this week. (By PA) The heady aroma of coffee carried us up a...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 22, 2020
- 4 min
Rallies, Protests Defy Health
Commemoration on June 19 in New York (By Getty Images) The Donald Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma attracted thousands of supporters to an...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Smell of Toast . . . Like Salvation
Lee: What is this bullshit with the toast anyway! You make it sound like salvation or something. I don’t want any goddamn toast! How many...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 15, 2020
- 4 min
Smashing the Shackles of Invisibility
An attorney for the family of the Rayshard Brooks talked about the slain black man as a father whose 8-year-old daughter, in her birthday...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 12, 2020
- 8 min
COVID-19 Vaccine Isn't Tuskegee Again
Flyer for The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (1932-1972) George Floyd had the new coronavirus. Floyd’s killing by...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 9, 2020
- 1 min
George Floyd (Rest in Peace)
October 14, 1973 - May 25, 2020 A Death blow is a Life blow to some A Death blow is a Life blow to Some Who till they died, did not alive...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 7, 2020
- 2 min
Not Everyone Wants COVID-19 Vaccine
The 11th day of protest in Washington, D.C. after a police officer killed a black man in Minneapolis. Black Americans are less likely...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 6, 2020
- 5 min
I'm a Human Being, Not a Demographic
At a Union Square, Manhattan demonstration for justice in the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by a police officer in Minneapolis,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 4, 2020
- 5 min
Trump’s Ex-Defense Chief “Angry and Appalled”
Cleveland Police First District Commander Daniel Fay and protester Daniel Watkins, of Cleveland, Ohio hug after kneeling together at...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 31, 2020
- 2 min
Dozens of Cities Explode in Fifth Night for Justice
Protestors in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a police officer killed a black man on May 25 (By Christian Science Monitor) Outraged...
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