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@DanRather
has become Twitter famous for his sharp political analysis and blunt explanations of current events. But he was initially reluctant to start tweeting.
“Twitter has been a pleasant surprise to me,” he says.
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Rep.
@AyannaPressley
is reintroducing a bill that seeks to end the disproportionate punishment of girls of color in schools.
She's calling to replace systems of harm with policies that center on humanity, justice and healing.
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"We get to be the heroes with full agency and control and action,”
@Marisha_Ray
says of playing D&D.
“And that's something that people don't have right now in their real lives.”
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The Lakota Sioux in North and South Dakota have long said the land Mount Rushmore occupies was stolen from them.
“To Native Americans, Mount Rushmore is not a poke in the eye. It's a poke in the heart,” historian John Taliaferro says.
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What sets D&D apart from other forms of media is that the game is what you make of it,
@matthewmercer
says.
"It's a tool set and permission for anybody to create their own stories."
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NEW: Rep.
@Jim_Jordan
says President Trump's defense team in the impeachment trial will "talk about the unconstitutional nature of the two articles" and "discuss the lack of due process that took place in the House of Representatives."
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The complicated legacy of Mount Rushmore is now front and center as President Trump prepares for his Independence Day celebrations at the monument.
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"I was sexually assaulted and nobody believed me. I didn't tell anyone, and you're telling all women that they don't matter, that they should stay quiet," one woman said, as Flake stood by silently.
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The man who sculpted Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, had ties to the KKK.
"He was on Klan councils. He met with them. He had lots of friends with them,” historian John Taliaferro says.
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What does "Expedition Unknown" host
@joshuagates
expect to show viewers today at an archaeological site in Egypt? "Kind of the beauty of this is, I don't know," he tells
@jeremyhobson
.
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A new report finds Black girls are disciplined more harshly than their white peers for things like dress code violations.
Over policing leads to more disruptions to education, increasing the “school-to-confinement pipeline,” Rep.
@AyannaPressley
says.
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Andy Slavitt (
@ASlavitt
) says the U.S. can eradicate COVID-19 if we throw the kitchen sink at the problem.
His plan includes universal mask-wearing and a near total lockdown close to 90%.
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“I think melancholy has always been a really good friend of mine,”
@SaraBareilles
says of her new album, which explores her personal struggle with depression:
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“Classical music was always in me.”
@YoshikiOfficial
talks with
@hereandnowrobin
ahead of his Carnegie Hall show:
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The U.S. has the resources to end poverty by providing an income floor for all Americans, Mayor
@MichaelDTubbs
says.
“I reject the scarcity mindset because we only seem to have that mindset when it comes to helping normal everyday Americans,” he says.
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The U.S. makes up 4% of the world’s population but has seen 20% of the pandemic deaths.
Andy Slavitt (
@ASlavitt
) says the U.S. is always four to six weeks away from eliminating the coronavirus.
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The erosion of public trust in journalism is something that worries
@DanRather
, but he says the key to overcoming that is for journalists to keep at it.
“The answer to what we can do about it is first thing, do our jobs as well as we can do them."
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Kentucky’s new governor, Andy Beshear, has restored voting rights to more than 140,000 felons in the state in an executive order signed days after he took office.
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“I actually think the more we can get Washington to start looking like our best-run cities and towns and not the other way around, the better,” says
@PeteButtigieg
, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana:
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"I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I'm mocking," YouTube singer-songwriter-satirist
@RandyRainbow
says. "But at the end of the day, I'm the little guy taking on the big guy."
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NEW: Chuck Hagel, former Obama administration Defense Secretary and former Republican senator, says White House officials who defy impeachment hearing subpoenas are obstructing justice.
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Racism must be reframed not as a black community issue — but as an American problem, poet and scholar Claudia Rankine says.
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On Sunday, the Discovery Channel is going to do something that's never been done before on TV: open a sarcophagus while broadcasting live from Egypt.
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"Let all the dirty laundry be aired. I don’t care whether it’s a Democrat or Republican. Epstein is a sleazy guy. He’s a sexual predator. If people in power coddled him, then put it all out on the table,"
@timkaine
tells
@hereandnowrobin
.
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All told, Baltimore's trash wheels have gobbled up:
🗑️ More than 11 million cigarette butts
🗑️ More than 850,000 plastic bottles
🗑️ 627,000 plastic bags
🗑️ A beer keg
🗑️ One guitar
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The polar vortex descending on the Midwest has a silver lining: the subzero temperatures pose a massive threat to the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect species.
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Lenny Kravitz fondly recalls standing in front of his mother as a kid and singing along with the tunes of legendary vocal powerhouse Gladys Knight.
“There was just something about Gladys and her voice that gave voice to my mother's soul,” he says.
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Congress should be focusing on two issues when it comes to immigration,
@SenSanders
tells
@jeremyhobson
: a path toward citizenship for 1.8 million DACA-eligible immigrants, and improved border security.
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"I'm optimistic that we will find an antiviral that not only is curative but is also preventative,” says Dr. Larry Brilliant, a leading epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox.
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Amtrak — a company better known for losing money than making money — is on track to break even for the first time in its nearly 50-year history.
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.
@jweisswolf
of
@PeriodEquity
says taxing menstrual products is “sex-based discrimination and therefore unconstitutional."
She's fighting for permanent legal change in all 50 states.
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“She got a fast-forward version of the kind of toll that it took on these detectives, over the span of decades, in the space of a couple of years,”
@pattonoswalt
says of his late wife’s research on the “Golden State Killer”:
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The U.S. makes up 4% of the world’s population but has seen 20% of the pandemic deaths.
Andy Slavitt (
@ASlavitt
) says the U.S. is always four to six weeks away from eliminating the coronavirus.
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“These guys in Saudi Arabia who are accused of murdering Khashoggi have a lot of money, and have that money all over the world,”
@Billbrowder
says. “This would be a devastating shock for them.”
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Marvin Gaye would be 79 years old today. From “Lucky, Lucky Me” to “Inner City Blues,” we dig through his archive:
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Female pilots from World War II are fighting for the right to be buried at Arlington
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“It became apparent that I had a voice, and I needed to use it, in a way to demonstrate that what is happening is not normal,”
@PeteSouza
says of his Instagram “shade” directed at President Trump:
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JUST IN: "That was a pretty damning transcript. That was not anything you want your president to be doing," former Sen.
@JeffFlake
tells
@jeremyhobson
.
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Daddy issues ensue in
@RandyRainbow
's memoir: He sees his own father as a "clone" of Trump.
When Rainbow came out as gay — a moment that didn’t surprise his friends or mother — his father took it as a “personal affront,” he says.
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“When I feel good, I sing,”
@jason_mraz
says, “and then singing makes me feel good, and it just escalates.”
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Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin says "what's under attack in America is decency and integrity from elected officials."
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“This is not Jamie Fraser, the king of men. This is an actor who thinks he's playing the role of a hillwalker," says
@SamHeughan
about his journey to hike Scotland's West Highland Way.
He takes readers along on the trek in his new memoir. 📕
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A Gallup poll found 96% of Americans support requiring background checks on all gun purchases.
@markbardenSHP
says senators should listen to their constituents and vote in favor of the background check bill.
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You might know as
@RandyRainbow
as as Trump’s “musical, on-screen, comedy nemesis.”
And some of the former president's associates know the comedian too: Anthony Scaramucci is “a big fan,” Rainbow says, and Michael Cohen invited Rainbow on his podcast.
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Intelligence analyst
@MalcolmNance
on Jeff Sessions, and the knowns and unknowns of Russian election meddling:
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Trump said, “Listen, you guys are getting more views than many mainstream media out there. Keep posting, keep promoting, keep speaking, and I'm going to have your back.,”
@Joy_Villa
says.
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In her new memoir, comedian Hannah Gadsby gets candid about how she received an autism diagnosis later in life — much to her relief.
Without a diagnosis, she says she lacked a framework to understand how her brain works.
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.
@Dave_Malloy
&
@Rachelchavkin
’s pop opera is inspired by Tolstoy. It's also
@joshgroban
’s Broadway debut:
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As of this morning, Lisa Montgomery has become the first woman executed by the federal government since 1953.
Montgomery was traumatized and tortured in her life,
@helenprejean
says — but the prosecutor called her story the “abuse excuse.”
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🚨 After a months-long search, we have some big news to share. 🚨
@tongscott
will be the third co-host of Here & Now starting this summer! He's joining the team after 16 years at Marketplace
Welcome, Scott! 📻
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"If you force children to hug or kiss someone who they may not know very well, then they're not having a say in the decision on who to show their affection to."
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@RepSwalwell
on Robert Mueller's testimony tomorrow:
"Success would be if this came across as a Law & Order episode rather than a law school class. We should avoid legalese and technical terms and really focus on the who, what, where, when and why."
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Studi, who is Cherokee, will receive an Academy Honorary Award in October. Buffy Sainte-Marie, a Canadian-American singer of First Nations descent, is so far the only Indigenous person to win an Oscar.
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Weatherman Al Roker addressed Room Rater's (
@ratemyskyperoom
) concerns by changing the lighting and the decor, says Claude Taylor, who created the account.
The alterations earned Roker a 10 out of 10 — a rare achievement.
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“What we found with both of the bears is that they would not take them off. They would actually leave them on,”
@ucdavisvetmed
’s Jamie Peyton says of the tilapia bandages:
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“Keeping beloved pets safe gives people hope when they’ve lost everything else,”
@TheWildLifeWBUR
says:
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The name "chronic fatigue syndrome" has obscured "the reality of this disease," says director
@jenbrea
on why she made
@unrestfilm
.
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After studying the death penalty for decades and witnessing six executions,
@helenprejean
says the legal process for sentencing capital punishment is inherently flawed.
Prosecutors decide whether to seek execution based on “impossible criteria,” she says.
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The future of birding "will be at its best if we have voices coming from a lot of different backgrounds,” black birder
@JasonWardNY
says.
#BlackBirdersWeek
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Grab your robe for an absurd night out with Youtuber and electronic musician
@marcrebillet
— a.k.a. "Loop Daddy."
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.
@SenDuckworth
is pregnant with her second child, and would be the first sitting senator to give birth. She says she’s still determining how much time she will take off, because "there are no maternity parental leave policies for senators."
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“Why nobody jumped up with a gun is because people aren’t trained to do that.” Firearms instructor
@MikeTheGunGuy
says it’s not realistic that arming more citizens would prevent mass shootings:
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After the violent attack on the Capitol, historian and author Ibram X. Kendi (
@DrIbram
) says he spoke to his mother.
"First thing she said: ‘If these people would have been Black, then they ALL would be dead.’ ”
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“If you take away people's access to information, you wind up with uninformed, manipulable voters,” says journalist and “Endangered” executive producer
@RonanFarrow
.
The HBO Max documentary tackles the dangers of journalism and threats to press freedom.
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.
@PaulRieckhoff
, founder and CEO of
@IAVA
, calls President Trump sending troops to the U.S.-Mexico border a “dangerous deployment” for what appears to be “a political stunt.” 🔊 Listen:
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“The level of granular evil ... puts [President Trump] in a terrible position if he wants to not do these sanctions,”
@Billbrowder
says on invoking the Magnitsky Act over the Khashoggi disappearance:
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Dragonflies sometimes eat hummingbirds.
And there's a lot more you don't know about these colorful, aerial insects.
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Exciting news: Carline Watson (
@WatsonCarline
) is joining Here & Now as executive producer.
She comes to us from
@NPR
, where she has spent nearly a quarter century leading editorial teams. She has run many shows, including
@npratc
.
Welcome, Carline!
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“This is the third time in basically the last year we've had a government shutdown,” says
@SenatorTester
. “I don't think it helps. ... I think it wastes taxpayer dollars. It should end today as far as I'm concerned.”
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After being at the Stonewall riots at the same time and not knowing it, Paul Glass and Charles Evans found their way back to each other years later. Now they're married, and they joined us to reflect on
#Stonewall50
.
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From “Putin and the Ritz” to “GOP Dropout,”
@RandyRainbow
has brought today's political news to Broadway satires:
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For years, Rev. William Barber (
@RevDrBarber
) has been calling for a Third Reconstruction — a sweeping effort from the federal government to dismantle racist policies and structures.
The future of our democracy depends on making these changes, he says.
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In
@StrongerTheFilm
, Jake Gyllenhaal takes on the pain, "joy and hope" of a marathon survival story:
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"One of the reasons why I wrote this book is I want folks to think deeply about where we are right now. And do we want to have the federal government … referring to journalists as the enemy?"
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As the field of Republican presidential candidates narrowed during the 2016 election,
@RandyRainbow
released a "Grease"-themed parody song: "GOP Dropout."
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No one knows how long the current economic crisis will last, economist
@elerianm
says.
But one thing is for sure: Restarting the economy is a lot more than just “flicking on a switch."
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On voter fraud in the U.S., Jason Kander (
@JasonKander
) says it’s “very hard to win a battle you’re not fighting”:
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Maryland lawmakers became the first in the U.S. to approve a statewide ban on Styrofoam food containers — and a local Baltimore celebrity may have had something to do with it.
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From “Putin and the Ritz” to “GOP Dropout,”
@RandyRainbow
has brought today’s political news to Broadway satires:
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On voter fraud in the U.S., Jason Kander (
@jasonkander
) says it’s “very hard to win a battle you’re not fighting”:
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Brett Kavanaugh “did everything but call it a witch hunt,”
@bpshow
says on the Supreme Court nominee’s reaction to the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her. Listen:
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.
@JulianCastro
says suburban voters in his home state of Texas are becoming disillusioned with Trump and the Republican Party.
“I grew up in a Texas where people were leaving the Democratic Party," he says. “Well, now the opposite is happening."
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Through his struggle with Parkinson's disease, Michael J. Fox found a way to maintain his signature optimism.
Until 2018, when his sunny disposition took a hit after undergoing spinal surgery and a serious fall forced him to confront his mortality.
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Marvin Gaye's seminal 1971 album "What's Going On" turns 50 this year.
Our host
@TonyaMosley
wants to know, what does the record mean to you?
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“All of the public evidence that we know of does not justify her death,”
@DrIbram
says.
“And so that's the thing: If you're claiming it's justified, then show us the evidence.”
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President Trump uses violence to hold on to power — from encouraging a mob to storm the Capitol to ending a 17-year hiatus on federal executions,
@helenprejean
says.
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As president of her local
@APWUnational
chapter, USPS worker Lori Cash says it’s stressful trying to keep her employees safe and updated on the latest information about the spread of the coronavirus.
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By the age of 3, children can grasp basic economic ideas.
@BethKobliner
says start teaching early:
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Even in his final days, David Crosby still had hope, his friend
@stevesilberman
says.
“It was a hope for the transformation of the world in a more humane direction. He kept that flame burning till the very end of his life,” Silberman says.
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“We either stop this epidemic or we have economic collapse," says
@Laurie_Garrett
, a pandemic expert and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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Joe Biden's lead in Georgia serves as "poetic justice" for the Deep South,
@BlackVotersMtr
co-founder
@MsLaToshaBrown
says.
People wrote the state off because of its history going red, but now Georgia exemplifies where the U.S. is headed, she says.
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JUST IN:
@HillaryClinton
tells host
@TonyaMosley
she is “troubled by the current secretary of state’s behavior” and how Mike Pompeo has reacted to the Trump/Ukraine call.
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🔊 Tune in Monday to hear
@hereandnowrobin
’s interview with Jake Gyllenhaal and
@Jeffmbauman
on
@StrongerTheFilm
.
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Author and blogger Jenny Lawson (
@TheBloggess
) explains what it means to be "furiously happy":
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Ukrainians are determined to defend themselves and protect their people,
@maria_avdv
says.
"That's why I'm staying here — because I don't want to leave the city. It's Russian soldiers who should go home," she says.
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“It's an intriguing process to take your DNA test if you are the descendant of enslaved people," says
@DavidLammy
, Labour MP for Tottenham.
"And that's the journey I went on — and it took me to Niger."
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For years, Rev. William Barber (
@RevDrBarber
) has been calling for a Third Reconstruction — a sweeping effort from the federal government to dismantle racist policies and structures.
The future of our democracy depends on making these changes, he says.
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Lisa Montgomery is set to be executed on Tuesday under the discretion of President Trump.
But Joe Biden has said he plans to end federal executions.
If Biden’s term began eight days earlier, Montgomery would live,
@helenprejean
says.
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He led people to safety on 9/11, and the people he helped knew him only as "the man in the red bandanna":
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