Durham, North Carolina, and Selma, Alabama In the autumn of 2014, still settling into retirement in Durham, a question began nagging at me: was Barack Obama going to get shot in Selma Alabama the following March? Now stay with me: was I just being more than normally paranoid? The short answer is No. But what’s … Continue reading Saving Obama With Santa, In Selma 2015;
[NOTE: This prominent article mentions Quakers 12 times, 11 times favorably. What do Friends think of that?]] Washington Post They quit liberal public schools. Now they teach kids to be anti-‘woke.’ By Hannah Natanson — April 15, 2024 Kali Fontanilla used to teach public school in California. Now she leads her own online Christian … Continue reading They’re Making an (Anti-Woke) Example of Quakers in their “Christian” School:
AP News: Trump endorses Mark Robinson for North Carolina governor and compares him to Martin Luther King Jr. BY GARY D. ROBERTSON RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – March 03, 2024 — Former president Donald Trump endorsed North Carolina Lt. Gov Mark Robinson for governor on Saturday, several months after the former president pledged to do so. … Continue reading Trump to Mark Robinson: You’re MLK Times Two — MLK on Steroids
Bulletin: Trump Said Dems Will Rename Pennsylvania—and Even Weirder Things Donald Trump’s ramblings this weekend were truly deranged. Win McNamee/Getty Images Donald Trump’s gaffes are becoming more frequent and more indecipherable by the day. At a National Rifle Association gathering in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Trump made plenty of strange blunders in front of his … Continue reading But Why Stop with Pennsylvania??
BY ELÉONORE HUGHES January 30, 2024 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The executive manager for institutional relations at a Brazilian state bank took the microphone before roughly 150 people at a forum on slavery’s legacy in his country, which kidnapped more Africans for forced labor than any other nation.“Today’s Bank of Brazil asks Black people … Continue reading Brazil’s Slave History: Recognition & Talk of Reparations