Category: Social Justice
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
What we know about the hanging deaths of two men in Mississippi Investigations into both deaths are ongoing. Rumors and speculation about the incidents have spread on social media, likely fueled by Mississippi’s painful history of racist violence in the Jim Crow era, The Associated Press reports. #DeltaStateUniversity #Mississippi #BlackLivesMatter #RacismInAmerica Thirsty and starving, Gazans face…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Liberia has a new plan to protect its rainforests. Can it work? Around half of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in the small coastal nation of Liberia. They’re home to species like western chimpanzees and pygmy hippos, valuable stands of hardwood — and hundreds of thousands of people. Despite years of logging reforms backed by foreign aid, Liberia lost…
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The Evolved Woman of the Week: Candace Parker
Welcome to the Evolving Folks Project’s “Evolved Woman of the Week” profile. Each week, we will highlight an individual who embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to one of the most accomplished WNBA players in…
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The Rent’s Too Damn High
As a child, I would sit and imagine what life would be like as an adult. For example, things my imagined older self would buy and faraway places I’d travel when I had the funds. All the places I saw on the Discovery Channel and PBS as a kid I wanted to go as an…
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Embracing Being Unk
In 2023, I turned 40 years old. There was an age and time in my life when I was in my early 20s. I gave little thought to being middle age, but now, as a full-fledged elder millennial, it’s my reality. I’ve discussed my mental health struggles in previous posts. As a young man, I…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison, where US criminals could be held El Salvador’s president has offered to incarcerate criminals deported from the U.S. at The Terrorism Confinement Center, a mega-prison intentionally isolated from urban areas that can accommodate up to 40,000 inmates. #ElSalvador #MegaPrison #TheTrumpadministration #ThisIsAmerica South Sudan to accept man deported from US in bid…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Dr. Leo Moore
Welcome to the Evolving Folks Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profile. Each week, we will highlight an individual who embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individual alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the medical director for the Los Angeles…
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The Evolved Woman of the Week: Yuri Kochiyama
Welcome to the Evolving Folks Project’s “Evolved Woman of the Week” profile. Each week, we will highlight an individual who embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to Japanese American civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama (1921–2014).…
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Black America Time to Get on Code
Black self-defense in the age of Trump 2.0 era Yes, Donald Trump has reached the presidency, a man with thirty-four convictions. A man who tried to overturn the 2020 election result by siccing his cultists on the U.S. Capitol. The United States of America is a nation founded on African slavery and the Native American…
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The Evolved Woman of the Week: Elaine Brown
Welcome to the Evolving Folks Project’s “Evolved Woman of the Week” Black History Month Edition profile. Each week, we will highlight an individual who embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the Philadelphia native, activist,…
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