Author: Lornett Vestal
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The Week In Stories Around The Globe
THE LEGACY OF LYNCHING, ON DEATH ROW “In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and founded an organization that became the Equal Justice Initiative. It guarantees legal representation to every inmate on the state’s death row.” #DeathRow#NewJimCrow#Injustice#Race Scientists have a scary theory about why human vision evolved to…
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Half of the Sky
Cloudy Skies Ahead During my young and single days, like most 20 somethings, I was looking for love in all the wrong places. But I had fun while looking. I was at a bar one night in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. I met a young nurse we’ll call “Rose.” She was sitting alone at the…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
For These African Migrants, Life in China Isn’t What They Promised “More and more Gambian migrants are giving up on their “Chinese Dream” and doing whatever they can to head home. “ #Gambia#China#Migrants#International Black science fiction writers face ‘universal’ racism, study finds “The world of speculative fiction publishing is plagued by “structural, institutional, personal,…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
The climate crisis is already here – but no one’s telling us “What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of our lives, and towards topics of brain-melting irrelevance” #ClimateChange #FossilFuels Uganda’s morals police are investing $88,000 in…
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Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn
The Ignition In 2008, the housing market crashed and brought about the Great Recession. This happened just as I graduated from Northern Illinois University. I had done all the right things and was prepared to head out into the so-called ‘Adult World.’ But then the bottom fell out as the housing market crashed. That same year, the GOP…
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THE WEEK IN STORIES AROUND THE GLOBE
Nicaraguans are using crowdsourcing technology to prove that a good map can change your life “Taking a bus in Latin America can be a disorienting experience. While the light rail systems in places like Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro have system maps that are fairly easy to understand, most cities…
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THE WEEK IN STORIES AROUND THE GLOBE
US airstrikes allegedly kill at least 73 civilians in northern Syria US airstrikes on a Syrian village have killed at least 73 civilians, a majority of them women and children, activists say, in the deadliest coalition attack on non-combatants since the start of the bombing campaign against the Islamic State. #WaronTerror #SyriaCrisis #MilitaryIndustrialComplex If All…
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America, You’re Getting Too Old for This Shit
Happy Birthday, America. Now Get Your Act Together On Monday, July 4th, 2016, America celebrated its 240th birthday. Fireworks, booze, barbecue, and time spent with loved ones were the day’s themes. Little did we know, this day was the calm before the storm. America’s racial tension and reaction against police brutality were brewing, about to spill…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Uprooted in Mexico: the US children ‘returned’ to a country they barely know “The children called him names and laughed at his Spanish. The teacher didn’t care, he just sat in class unable to understand or speak to anyone. He cried every day and begged me to send him back to the US,” said Aguilar,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Islamic State tightens grip on women held as sex slaves The advertisement, along with others for kittens, tactical gear and weapons, appeared on an encrypted Telegram app and was shared with The Associated Press by an activist with Iraq’s persecuted Yazidi community, which is trying to free an estimated 3,000 women and girls still held…
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