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Lahaina and Global Reality

      Rotarian Al Jubitz, founder of the War Prevention Initiative, has pointed out an ill-starred coincidence: the town of Lahaina was burning on the anniversary day, even at the very hour (11:02 a.m. in Japan is 4:02 p.m. in Maui) that the United States dropped its second nuclear weapon on the people of Nagasaki back in 1945.  […]

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The Map Is Not the Territory

      Though he gave credit to another social scientist who expressed the concept, it was Alfred Korzybski who, in 1931, coined the expression, “The map is not the territory.” In other words, an idealized model of anything is not the thing. […]

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Republican Congresswomen Trade Reproductive Rights

  While this title may appear insensitive or provocative, it’s  not meant to evoke any such sentiments. Rather, it’s intended to convey the serious disconnect between women fighting to maintain control over their  reproductive rights as well as medical care. And it’s an attempt to shed light on the harsh reality that Republican Congresswomen wanting to appear masculine and stoic have traded women’s reproductive rights for their male colleagues’ testosterone. Or could it be an actual  body part that rhymes with denticles? […]

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Bridging the Nation’s Digital Divide for the Next Generation

     It’s important for Black college students to have a grasp on digital skills even before they set foot on an HBCU campus, but the “digital divide” is likely to have already set them back. Nationwide, only 65 percent of Hispanics and 71 percent of Blacks have internet service of any kind in their homes, compared to 80 percent of whites. The “digital divide” for Black Americans is equally pronounced in urban and rural areas. Urban whites are more than twice as likely to have high speed internet than urban Blacks. In the rural South, the same split is 77 percent to 62 percent. […]

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Congress, Extend the Affordable Connectivity Program to Keep Black Households Online

     The program’s participation rate, which now exceeds one-third of eligible households, far outweighs that of the Lifeline program, which offers a $9.25 discount on phone or internet service and has attracted less than one-in-five (19%) eligible households to enroll. Because of the program’s success, education, civil/human rights, religious and civically conscious groups are imploring the powers that be to not cast the 20 million participating households into the digital dark…to not allow the ACP to end. […]