Category: Health
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump’s portrayal of NATO in crisis carries risks for alliance “President Trump has not taken damaging actions against NATO, but his words are damaging,” said Adam Thomson, a former British ambassador to NATO and now director of the European Leadership Network think-tank in London. #Trump #NATO #UKTrumpVisit women honoured with #BecauseOfHerWeCan campaign Incredible, groundbreaking Indigenous Australian…
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The Struggle is Real
College is expensive af! When I was 17 years old and set to graduate from high school, my mother told me she couldn’t afford to send me to college. Like most young people, I was sold the dream of college. I wanted a better life for myself, but my family was poor. Like really poor.…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
In Canada, You Can Now Use Bills With a Black Woman on Them While Americans are still waiting to deposit Harriet Tubmans in their bank accounts, our neighbors to the north have just unveiled a new $10 bill that features their own civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond. #Canada#CivilRights#BlackGirlMagic#ViolaDesmond UN moves towards recognising human right…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
We will cut your throats’: The anatomy of Greece’s lynch mobs “Of course, fascists and racists are a threat to both Greeks and migrants. But it’s like the police don’t care because it’s just another report they have to file and that’s it.” #Greece#Racists#FarRight#BigotsHumanRights The disgusting thing that’s happening to women reporting sexual abuse in…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression. T The result is that millennials of color are even more exposed to disaster than their peers. Many white millennials have an iceberg of accumulated wealth from their parents and grandparents that they can draw on for help with tuition,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline shut after 5,000-barrel leak in U.S. TransCanada Corp has shut part of its Keystone pipeline after 5,000 barrels of oil leaked in Amherst, South Dakota, the company said on Thursday, four days before the state of Nebraska is due to decide on an expansion of the system. #NoDAPL#ClimateChange#OilSpill#NorthDakota Zimbabwe’s Military, in Apparent…
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The Battle for Truth and Justice
In November 2017, I was one of thirty military veterans selected for the Veteran’s Organizing Institute. The following weekend would be a deep dive into grassroots organizing, political theory, bird-dogging, sharing, and telling our stories. The familiar tread throughout the week was that it has always been a military and veteran component at the forefront…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump to triple US national park entry fees “We’re not against fee increases,” Emily Douce, the budget and appropriations director at the National Parks Conservation Association, told the Washingtonian. “Our concern is that we don’t want to price people out of the parks.” #NationalParks#Nature#Trump A quarter of the world will be African by 2050 “We are…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Fallen Soldier’s Mother Says Trump Disrespected Her Son And Family Trump was asked on Monday why he had not yet commented on the deaths of four U.S. soldiers who were ambushed during a mission in Niger on Oct. 4. In his answer, Trump turned attention to the policies of past presidents and their contact with…
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Lawrence, You Good, Man?
Insecure AF The hit HBO show Insecure has taken everyone by storm. Issa Rae went from being an indie YouTube darling to a Covergirl with one of television’s most talked about shows. One of the most controversial characters is Issa’s boyfriend-turned-ex, Lawrence Walker. For Black Twitter and the black blogosphere, Lawrence is either the hero or…
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