#America

I am a journalist and author. I've covered ugliness & injustice & hatred & death for more than 20 years. I find myself empty and speechless today. A writer with
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Almost 99 years ago to the day, North Tulsa burned when white rioters took innocent lives and destroyed Black Wall Street. 99 years later, racial pain is active in South
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THIS is what pisses me off, especially when my mutuals say stuff like this. we have been helping as much as we could by sharing links, and signing every petition
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Do you guys know your sickle cell genotype? Please complete this poll... RT when you do. It looks like majority of the voters so far do not know their genotype...
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Whenever I have to take my cat to the vet I’m like is this what it’s like taking your kid to the dr in America I know she needs a
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After consulting my Bible it appears Jesus would *not* have piloted an A-4 Skyhawk over Vietnam, dropping ordnance on Vietnamese villagers and aiding attempted overthrow of the Free World. Treason
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1. I took 2 hours off last night to celebrate my adult son's birthday. I came back and the world was literally on fire. And I am furious about what
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Real talk here/ What Happens if America’s 2.5 Million Farmworkers Get Sick?https://nyti.ms/2UYYIb1  "A century ago in “The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair wrote about how the teeming tenements and meatpacking houses where
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Who made these statements about democracy, human rights, and freedom in China? Trump, Obama, or Bush? THREAD 1/ "And that is why America will always speak out for these core
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GM, I awakened this morning imagining what 01/21/21 will feel like when a #Biden/Warren ticket has won. For centuries now the wealthy have benefited from the working class. It's time
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THREAD: DeSean Jackson's IG posts are so problematic that I needed to talk about it—especially in the sunlight of the Black Lives Matter moment in America. This cancel culture trash
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Did you know that police officers don't even make it into the top 10 of most dangerous jobs in America? No? Everything you've been culturally told about this profession is
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Today, contemplating what to me is a dispiriting political scene in America, I've been thinking of Dinesh D'Souza. He said something brilliantly insightful in conversation with me several years ago.
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Before you fall for this fable of Chinese philanthropy in Latin America, here's a few facts that were not mentioned in the article:-The U.S. donated 1,000 ventilators to Mexico while
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THREAD: I wanted to share a thought about the comparative optics of America and China's respective responses to COVID-19, beginning with two caveats.First, albeit for different reasons, neither country has
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Higher Ed is in a lot of trouble right now. I get that. But it amazes me how little schools value quality faculty. If the church in America valued wisdom,
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