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From the Wires: AP Photos: Afghan women assert themselves with martial arts
A group of young Afghan women in Kabul have taken up Japanese jujitsu, a martial arts form that dates back centuries. They dream of someday competing on the international level. In many ways, jujitsu seems an ideal sport for women in Afghanistan, where gender discrimination has deep cultural and historical roots and where many women…
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Mounting Documentation of Systemic Racial Bias of US Judicial System
Bill Gates wrote on his post 5 Books for a lousy year: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander. Like many white people, I’ve tried to deepen my understanding of systemic racism in recent months. Alexander’s book offers an eye-opening look into how the criminal justice system unfairly targets…
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How to mourn one-hundred-thousand deaths
The COVID-19 has cost so many more lives in the United States, than 9/11, and Vietnam War together. The New York Times published the names of 1,000 people who died of the coronavirus on the front page of its paper edition. They not only list the names, ages and location, they also added a few…
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#Twitterfun: None of them are doctors.
They have like, three or four kids? Very nice. None of them are doctors.” – my mom, updating me on a family whom she insists I met once in 1983. Anil Dash posted on twitter: Ironically, when my mother describes people’s children (including her own) as non-doctors, she delivers the news as if it were…
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A Study of News Sites' Front Pages
Articles created on the website of a news company, will bubble up to the front-page. What are the visuals featured for those articles? Here are five examples of today’s front pages: What can we do with headshot featured image? Here are a few examples
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44 Songs of Obama’s summer 2019
On August 24, 2019, this tweet happened: On the following pages you can listen to the song, read the lyrics, find more music by the same musicians and learn more about the artists. If you want to pick go +1 on the page, meaning if you want to learn more about Lauryn Hill (12) go…
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