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Friday Night Music, December 22, 2012: “Blue Christmas/Xmas (To Whom It May Concern),” Miles Davis and Bob Dorough, 1962

• December 21, 2012 • Comments Off

Posted in Class, Cultural History, Holidays, Love, Miles Davis, Music
Tags: "Blue Xmas", "Mad at Miles", African Americans, Black Relationships, Black Women, Blacks, Blue Christmas, Bob Dorough, Business, Carmen McRae, Christmas, Facebook, Gil Evans, Herbie Hancock, Holidays, Love, Miles Davis, Music, New York City, Pearl Cleage, Santa Claus, Schoolhouse Rock, SGI Buddhism, Small Day Tomorrow, The Holidays, Wayne Shorter, Xmas

The History That They’re Not Teaching Us or Our Children About Thanksgiving

• November 25, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Class, Education, History, Homelessness, Joblessness, Native Americans/First Nations, People of Color, Race, The Economy
Tags: Afghanistan, Alternative History, Broken Families, Death, Eddie Izzard, First Nations, Homelessness, Iraq, King Philip's War, Massasoit, Mother Earth, Myth Making, Native Americans, Propaganda, Recovering Addiction, Scott Berkun, Settlers, Smallpox, Squanto, Thanksgiving, The Atlantic Ocean, The Civil War, The Great Recession, The Holidays, The Mayflower, The Pilgrims, The Puritans

Well, I Have a Job For the Moment…

• November 22, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Class, Education, Health, Homelessness, Joblessness, Mental Health/Psychology, The Economy
Tags: African Americans, Blacks, Career, Chanting, Christmas, Clerical Workers, Daimoku, Extensions, Freelancing, Job, Job Hunting, Job Search, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, New Year's, Survival, Teaching, Temporary Employment, Thanksgiving, The Holidays, The New Poor, The Poor, Unemployment Check, Unemployment Insurance, Work, Writing

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The New York Times

They Were Laid Off. Now They’re Helping Out. April 9, 2020
Across the country, unemployed workers are setting up online communities to help navigate the nightmare of crashed websites and confusing regulations.
Coronavirus in the South: Vulnerable Region Awaits the Worst April 9, 2020
Public health officials fear underlying problems, from poor health to poverty, could exacerbate the effects of the coronavirus in the South.
Checkpoints, Curfews, Airlifts: Virus Rips Through Navajo Nation April 10, 2020
The coronavirus is tearing across the largest Native American reservation in the United States. Facing a spike in deaths, Navajo officials are scrambling to respond.
Poultry Worker’s Death Highlights Spread of Coronavirus in Meat Plants April 9, 2020
Some employees are coming in sick, and one woman died after being ordered back to work. “Our work conditions are out of control,” a longtime Tyson employee said.
New Trump Attack Ad Falsely Suggests Former Governor Is Chinese April 10, 2020
The ad, which calls Joe Biden soft on China and includes an image of former Gov. Gary Locke of Washington, an Asian-American, comes at a time of rising xenophobia over the coronavirus.
OPEC Plan for Oil Output Disappoints Traders: Live Updates April 10, 2020
The latest on stock market and business news during the coronavirus outbreak.
Coronavirus Live Updates: Global Caseload Surpasses 1.5 Million April 10, 2020
E.U. officials agreed on a €540 billion coronavirus loan package that critics say doesn’t do enough for Spain and Italy. The U.N. Security Council held its first meeting on the pandemic.
Cathedral Hospital Plan Stalls Amid Concern Over Evangelical Role April 10, 2020
Leaders of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan were upset by the involvement of Samaritan’s Purse, led by the Rev. Franklin Graham.

The Guardian, UK

Coronavirus live news: global deaths pass 95,000 as Easter begins under lockdown April 10, 2020
Boris Johnson leaves intensive care; cases worldwide top 1.6m; UN chief says virus threatens global security. Follow the latest updates.Full story: UN chief warns of threat to global peaceLatest developments at a glanceBoris Johnson leaves intensive careHow coronavirus spread across the globe - visualisedSee all of our coronavirus coverage 8.26am BST Newborn […]
Care homes across globe in spotlight over Covid-19 death rates April 9, 2020
Residential homes have emerged as key breeding ground for infections from Madrid to New YorkCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCare homes for older people across much of Europe and North America are struggling to cope with the global coronavirus pandemic, prompting allegations of inhumane treatment and calls for high-level inquiries. […]
WHO warned of transmission risk in January, despite Trump claims April 9, 2020
Notes to global health leaders on 10 and 11 January highlighted possible infection routesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization warned the US and other countries about the risk of human-to-human transmission of Covid-19 as early as 10 January, and urged precautions even though initial Chinese studies at that […]
EU strikes €500bn relief deal for countries hit hardest by pandemic April 9, 2020
Compromise reached after Netherlands relents on ‘economic surveillance’ of beneficiary nationsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA messy compromise to unlock €500bn (£438bn) of EU support for countries hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic has been struck after Italy’s prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, warned that the existence of th […]
'It's all gone': Cyclone Harold cuts a deadly path through Vanuatu April 9, 2020
The northern islands of the Pacific nation were hit by a category-5 cyclone on Monday, flattening buildings, cutting power and stripping treesThe once-lush forest cover of the island of Malo has been completely denuded. Nearly every tree lost major limbs. Many were snapped at the trunk. Even cyclone-adapted coconut trees were strewn about like matchsticks. S […]
Police fear gangland feud from Irish Republic now being fought in Belfast April 10, 2020
Fatal shooting of Dublin criminal is latest incident in saga of vicious score-settlingIt started with taunts about stolen flip-flops, veered into a litany of horrors – abduction, murder, dismemberment, betrayal, vengeance – and ended with a party.The gangland feud propelling such violence and depravity has played out in Ireland and now moved to the UK. Conti […]
Opec, Russia and other oil producers make draft deal to cut output April 10, 2020
Mexico holds out against scale of reductions which would amount to 10m barrels per day, or 10% of global supplyOpec countries and allies led by Russia have agreed in principle to cut their oil output by more than a fifth and said they expected the United States and other producers to join in their effort to prop up prices hammered in the coronavirus crisis.B […]
Tolkien was right: giant trees have towering role in protecting forests April 9, 2020
Study highlights importance of biodiversity as part of strategy to stop planet overheating Scientists have shown to be true what JRR Tolkien only imagined in the Lord of the Rings: giant, slow-reproducing trees play an outsized role in the growth and health of old forests.In the 1930s, the writer gave his towering trees the name Ents. Today, a paper in the j […]

The BBC

Coronavirus: New York using mass graves amid outbreak April 10, 2020
Drone footage shows coffins stacked in a pit in the city, as the state logs more cases than any country.
Coronavirus pandemic: EU agrees €500bn rescue package April 10, 2020
EU ministers reached the deal after long talks, pledging support for countries hit hard by coronavirus.
Clothing makers in Asia give stark coronavirus warning April 10, 2020
Millions of jobs in Asia’s vital garment industry are at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus: Seven people stuck in a lift. Then one coughs... April 9, 2020
A new film explores race and fear in the age of the coronavirus.
Yemen: World Food Programme to cut aid by half in Houthi-controlled areas April 10, 2020
The World Food Programme feeds more than 12 million Yemenis a month, 80% in Houthi-controlled areas.
Coronavirus: Great apes on lockdown over threat of disease April 9, 2020
Fears are growing that gorillas, orangutans and others apes could contract the virus.
Oil producers agree to cut production by a tenth April 9, 2020
The group will cut production by 10 million barrels a day from May to combat a fall in demand.
BepiColombo Mercury mission bids farewell to Earth April 10, 2020
The joint European-Japanese mission calls by home on its long journey to the "iron planet".