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Retired Philly Police Captain Raymond Lewis Arrested with Other Occupy Wall Street Activists; He Says It Was the Proudest Moment of His Life

• November 22, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in American History, American Politics, Bailouts, Budget Cuts, Class, Cultural History, Environmental Crimes, Homelessness, Joblessness, Labor History, Obama Administration, People of Color, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: Action, Activism, Arrest, Captain Ray Lewis, Demonstration, Iraq War, Lewis, New York, New York City, New York City Police Department, New York Observer, NYPD, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Philadelphia Police Department, Police Officers, Political Activism, Rant, Ray Lewis, Retired Captain Raymond Lewis, Scott Olsen, Symbol, Sympathy Vote, Wisconsin

The Ancestors Welcome Poet-Singer-Musician Gil Scott-Heron, Known For “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”; Father of the Spoken Word Movement and a Progenitor of Hip Hop

• May 28, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American Politics, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Drug Culture/Industry, Environmental Crimes, Hate Crimes, Homelessness, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Joblessness, Music, National Issues, Race, Revolutions, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Winter in America", African American, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, Alec Wilkinson, Blacks, Brenda Sykes, Brian Jackson, Chuck D, Drug Addict, Drugs, Gia Scott-Heron, Gil Scott-Heron, I'm New Here, Jamaica, Jamaican Ancestry, Kanye West, Musician, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, New York, New York City, Racism, Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Ron Carter, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, We Almost Lost Detroit

As You Prepare to Drive to Your Memorial Day Destination, Take Time to Check Out Mark Fiore’s “Oil Anthem”

• May 27, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Class, Consumer Fraud, Cultural History, Environmental Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, Obama Administration, Travel
Tags: BP, Cartoonist, Conoco, Consumers, Exxon Mobil, First Holiday Season 2011, Gas, Gas Grass Ass, Gasoline, Gouging, Greed, Holiday, Holidays, Mark Fiore, Memorial Day, Oil Companies, Oil Industry, Political Cartoons, Summer Vacation, United States, Unofficial Start to Summer

“Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans” Here for a Limited Time Only

• May 13, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Awards, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cooking, Crime, Cultural History, Discrimination, Documentary, Drug Culture/Industry, Education, Environmental Crimes, Film, Food, Hate Crimes, Health, Hurricanes, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, National Issues, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Obama Administration, People of Color, Political Malfeasance, Preachers/Ministers, Protestant Denominations, Public Television, Race, Sexuality, Spirituality, Television, The Catholic Church, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Congo Square", "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans", "Treme", Arguments, Black Creoles, Black Neighborhood, Brenda Marie Osbey, Broken Levees, California Newsreel, Community, Documentary, Father Jerome LeDoux, Film Documentary, Film Festivals, Glen David Andrews, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Lenwood Sloan, Levees, Lolis Eric Elie, Nature, New Orleans, New Orleans Music, San Francisco International Film Festival, South Madison Branch Public Library, St. Augustine Parish, The Mississippi River, Tribeca Film Festival, Wynton Marsalis

Spike Lee Returns with a New Documentary About New Orleans (and the Oil-Soaked Gulf) Five Years After Katrina on HBO

• August 19, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cultural History, Democrats in Name Only, Documentaries, Documentary, Education, Environmental Crimes, Film, Haiti, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, Health, Hurricanes, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Obama Administration, People of Color, Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Cancer Alley", "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise", "Treme", "When the Levees Broke", African Americans, Alabama, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Blacks, BP, Brown, Bush, Cable TV, Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Debut, Dick Cheney, Documentary, Environmental Disaster, Florida, George W. Bush, Haiti, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Louisiana, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Michael Brown, Mississippi, Neighborhoods, New Orleans LA, NOLA, NOLA.com, Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, Premiere, President Barack Obama, Rep. Joseph Cao, Seafood Industry, Sean Penn, Simonize, Spike, Spike Lee, The BP Oil Spill, The Deepwater Horizon, The Gulf Coast, The Mahalia Jackson Theatre, Vietnamese Community, Wendell Pierce, William "Cold Cash" Jefferson

Vietnamese Fishermen, Shrimpers, Locked Out of Gulf Clean Up Efforts; Others Are Getting Sick

• May 26, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in American History, American Politics, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Education, Environmental Crimes, Health, New Orleans, Obama Administration, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The View, Women
Tags: 911, Bobby Jindal, BP, British Petroleum, Bush II, Cajuns, Clean Up, Cleaning Up, Creoles, Dick Cheney, Eastern Europeans, Exxon Valdez, Father Vien The Nguyen, First Generation Immigrants, Fishermen, George W. Bush, Governor Bobby Jindal, Halliburton, Jindal, Louisiana, Mobile Bay National Estuary Program, Mobile Baykeeper, New Orleans East, người Kinh, người Việt, Oil Spill, OilSpillVolunteers, Oxygen, Per Diem, Plaquemines Parish, Poisoning, President George W. Bush, Republicans, Save Our Seabirds, Shamrock Environmental Corporation, Shrimpers, The Deez, The Federal Government, The Gulf Coast, The International Bird Rescue and Research Center, The National Audubon Society, The National Wildlife Federation, The Twin Towers, The View, Vice President Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Community, Whoopi Goldberg

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On April Fool's, a Look at Coronavirus Pranksters Caught in the Law April 1, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has brought fear, panic and pranksters. In some cases, bad behavior has crossed the line into criminal terrorist acts.
Coronavirus Spreads in Veterans’ Home, Leaving ‘Shuddering Loss for Us All’ April 1, 2020
The mayor of Holyoke in Massachusetts confronted the superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home after hearing rumors that infections were spreading.
At the Top of the Covid-19 Curve, How Do Hospitals Decide Who Gets Treatment? April 1, 2020
Guidelines that could determine which coronavirus patients get prioritized for lifesaving care vary by state, involving factors such as age, health problems, pregnancy and cognitive abilities.
'Tiger King': What Happened to Carole Baskin’s Ex-Husband, Don Lewis? April 1, 2020
A popular Netflix documentary has brought a Florida sheriff a flood of new theories in the unsolved disappearance.
The Coronavirus Patients Betrayed by Their Own Immune Systems April 1, 2020
A “cytokine storm” becomes an all-too-frequent phenomenon, particularly among the young. But treatments are being tested.
Dr. James T. Goodrich, Who Operated on Conjoined Twins, Dies at 73 April 1, 2020
Dr. Goodrich led teams that did a series of celebrated surgeries. He was a victim of the coronavirus.
George Preti, 75, Dies; Studied Bodily Odors as Biological Clues April 1, 2020
In his “bizarre niche” of science, he sought to weaponize odors as a means to sniff out disease, even using dogs to do so.
How Are You Feeling? Surveys Aim to Detect Covid-19 Hot Spots Early April 1, 2020
Scientists have persuaded Britons and Israelis to fill out questionnaires about their health, to get ahead of the coronavirus by getting resources to the right place. The U.S. is next.

The Guardian, UK

Coronavirus could be final straw for EU, European experts warn April 1, 2020
Leaders are warned that if division prevails, pandemic will be more destructive than Brexit, migration and bailout crisesCoronavirus – latest global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe European Union has weathered the storms of eurozone bailouts, the migration crisis and Brexit, but some fear coronavirus could be even more destructive.In a rare interv […]
Viktor Orbán ditches mayor plan amid claims of coronavirus power grab April 1, 2020
Hungary’s prime minister criticised for inefficient and unworkable measuresCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHungary’s nationalist government announced measures to strip the country’s mayors of political autonomy, before appearing to ditch them hours later, the latest episode in a political drama in which the prime minister, Viktor […]
Oceans can be restored to former glory within 30 years, say scientists April 1, 2020
Major review reports recovery of marine life but a redoubling of efforts is still needed The glory of the world’s oceans could be restored within a generation, according to a major new scientific review. It reports rebounding sea life, from humpback whales off Australia to elephant seals in the US and green turtles in Japan.Through rampant overfishing, pollu […]
Jack Schofield, Guardian's Ask Jack tech columnist, dies at 72 April 1, 2020
Paper’s editor says Schofield was ‘one of the first true computing experts in British journalism’Jack Schofield, the Guardian’s former computer editor and author of its technology advice column, Ask Jack, for almost 20 years, has died aged 72.Schofield was taken to hospital following a heart attack on Friday night and died on Tuesday afternoon. Continue read […]
Polish government still planning to hold presidential election April 1, 2020
Based on current polling, current president Andrzej Duda, would gain more than 50% of the voteCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Polish government intends to hold a presidential election in May, despite a growing chorus of voices saying that doing so amid a pandemic would be unfair, undemocratic and potentially dangerous.Based on […]
Ex-soldier's death casts light on Spaniards who helped liberate Paris April 1, 2020
Rafael Gómez Nieto, who has died from coronavirus, was last survivor of WW2 La Nueve forceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe death from coronavirus of a 99-year-old former soldier who was the last surviving member of a company of predominantly Spanish troops who helped liberate Paris from Nazi occupation has thrown a spotlight on […]
BP to cut spending amid 'most brutal' oil price rout in decades April 1, 2020
Budget to be slashed, including $1bn less on US shale projects, on back of coronavirus crisisCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBP is braced for a $1bn (£800m) financial blow in its first-quarter results and plans to slash its spending by a fifth this year to weather “the most brutal” oil market rout in decades.The oil giant told inv […]
Ugandan police accused of abusing lockdown laws after LGBT arrests April 1, 2020
Twenty people arrested in raid on shelter and charged with disobeying distancing rulesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePolice in Uganda have charged 20 LGBT people with disobeying rules on physical distancing and risking the spread of coronavirus, in what campaigners say is a clear case of authorities in parts of Africa abusing new […]

The BBC

Coronavirus: Greatest test since World War Two, says UN chief April 1, 2020
UN boss António Guterres calls for an "immediate co-ordinated" global response to tackle the crisis.
Spain's deaths soar as infection rate slows April 1, 2020
With more than 9,000 deaths, Spain has the second-highest number of fatalities caused by coronavirus.
Afghanistan and Taliban begin direct talks with aim of prisoner swap April 1, 2020
The first face-to-face meeting takes place in the Afghan capital despite a coronavirus lockdown.
Coronavirus: Iran's official death toll passes 3,000 April 1, 2020
The health ministry reports 138 new fatalities and 2,987 more cases in the past 24 hours.
Hungry black hole may be cosmic 'missing link' April 1, 2020
Astronomers say they have found the best evidence yet for an elusive class of black hole.
Coronavirus: Saudi Arabia asks Muslims to delay Hajj bookings April 1, 2020
The kingdom says it is concerned about the safety of pilgrims amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus: Playing classical music for South Korea hospital patients March 31, 2020
Musicians in South Korea have played a classical music concert for coronavirus patients.
Top S African HIV scientist dies from coronavirus April 1, 2020
Tributes are being paid to Gita Ramjee for her world-renowned research into HIV prevention.