Wayne County Public Library s bookmobiles and seven locations are 100 books heavier and that much more informed about America s long and complicated racial history.
From little-known histories to more comprehensive accounts, the Wayne County Racial Justice Coalition, the county s public library system and Buckeye Book Fair partnered to donate some 100 black-themed books for adults and children in an effort to make American history more accessible.
For Susan Roberts, assistant director of the county s library system, the gift of books was enough to pique her interest. We re always interested in expanding our collection, and having a broad range of books available for everybody, Roberts said.
by Gavin Lewis / July 3rd, 2021
During the recent G7 summit the corporate media went into pro-US propaganda overdrive. The BBC’s Global News channel – or UK global propaganda outlet – has spent the years since the Iraq War spinning the US Military’s assault on the Black and Brown homelands of the world as ‘America spreading democracy’. Media Lens has responded to the brutal consequences, condemning BBC Paul Wood’s misrepresentation “The coalition came to Iraq in the first place to bring democracy and human rights” (22 December 2005). Previously, BBC defence Correspondent Jonathan Marcus also historically spun American Military aggression as “the promotion of democracy throughout the Muslim world” (5 December 2002). In the near two decades since Iraq, consecutive BBC Political Editors Andrew Marr and Nick Robinson have also regularly spouted this propaganda position. And this ongoing orthodoxy was parroted ad-infinitum during the summit by the rest o
Save this story for later.
Alicka Ampry-Samuel works out of a two-story office building overlooking an expanse of vacant land, in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. She grew up a few blocks away, in one of the area’s nearly two dozen public-housing complexes. When she was fifteen, her closest friend, a girl she’d known since early childhood, got into an argument with a boy from another housing development. “And he pulled out a gun,” Ampry-Samuel said. The funeral was held at the St. Paul Community Baptist Church, a local institution. Teen-agers filled the pews. In the eulogy, a pastor told Ampry-Samuel and others to honor their friend’s life by “going to school and serving God.”
Simple tricks, new technology help Northland dairy farmers reduce water use
19 Apr, 2021 02:00 AM
6 minutes to read
The Alexanders milk around 350 mainly Holstein Friesian cows. Photo / Supplied
The Country
In a region increasingly prone to drought, being able to reduce the amount of water used in your dairy shed by 50 per cent is a massive win.
For Hukerenui Holstein Friesian breeders Kevin and Michele Alexander that win came down to measuring good data, a commitment to finding a better way to manage water on their farm and using better tools and methods, including a hose nozzle that uses significantly less water than a normal hose.
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg s buoyant comedy about a school teacher who turns to alcohol to cope with his midlife crisis is very different in tone from Tove Ditlevsen s slim, punchy autobiographical trilogy Childhood, Youth, Dependency about a gifted poet who achieves fame but ends up a drug addict. Yet both are set in Copenhagen and wise to the slippery slope of substance abuse and its nihilistic appeal. Vinterberg finds black humour in tragedy, while Ditlevsen becomes mired in it. There s a plainspoken clarity to her prose that somehow makes the devastating trajectory of her short life hit even harder.
Read more: