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Sampa the Great on why Black women in hip-hop can be anything they want

A singer-songwriter, poet and MC, Sampa the Great was born in Zambia and raised in Botswana, where she began MCing at school. She then studied in America before relocating to Australia in 2014, where she launched her music career. Her incredible debut album "The Return" won numerous awards. Sampa talks…

France 24

PBS joins food TV contests with 'The Great American Recipe'

America has perfected the stressful TV cooking competition

The Independent UK

Tourist dies after car breaks down trying to find petrol station in extreme 50C heat

Retired marine officer David Kelleher was found dead after trying to find petrol for his car after it broke down in 50C heat in America's Death Valley

Daily Mirror

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Abolish Zoning—All of It

It'll be better for economic growth, housing, and the environment.

Reason

Dog waits in same spot every day hoping someone will take him home

Little Remy 'put himself out there' to secure a new home - and despite spending a year in the Howl of a Dog's care before being adopted, he is now enjoying his new life Charlotte, in North Carolina, America

Daily Mirror

Eyewitness to Jan. 6: America is gone

David Butow has photographed conflict zones all over the world. Jan. 6 "was one of the worst things" he's ever seen

Salon

Editorial: On kids’ vaccines, DeSantis is wrong, but never in doubt

The quip “often wrong, never in doubt” fits Gov. Ron DeSantis like a glove. He takes it to extremes by doubling down, at the expense of our children, on his cultivated political appeal to the anti-vaxxer element of right-wing America.

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Commentary: What if we replaced public school districts with less rigid systems?

America’s curriculum wars seem to be at their peak, with deep disagreement about how our country’s children ought to be educated. But the most bitter and consequential schooling wars in our nation’s history actually occurred in the last half of the 19th century between the white Protestant majority and the…

Los Angeles Times

Marcus Hayes: World Cup 2026 can change Philadelphia’s reputation and profile

PHILADELPHIA — It’s never too late to make a fresh impression.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: GOP’s violent, expanding war on LGBTQ kids should make you think about 1930s Germany

I’ve been meaning to write a column on the growing threat — and reality — of violence to America’s LGBTQ community posed by right-wing rhetoric and politics, but it’s proved a difficult piece to write. Not because the “culture wars” around sexuality and gender are complicated — they can be,…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial: Executive orders aren't ideal, but post-Roe, they may be women's only defense

The Biden administration reportedly is considering using executive orders to protect women whose right to abortion may soon be eliminated in Republican states like Missouri, if and when the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Presidential over-use of these unilateral orders has long been a legitimate concern, but if…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Mayo Clinic Minute: Heat exhaustion and heatstroke

As the temperature rises in the summer, so does the risk of heat-related illnesses, like heat exhaustion and heatstroke. Over the past 30 years, extreme heat has claimed more lives in America than any other weather-related hazard, including flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes or lightning, according to the National Weather Service.

Tribune News Service

Black Men United’s Juneteenth giveaway in Hyde Park aims to rewrite negative narratives

“All we’re trying to do is paint a different picture, tell a different story and share a different narrative about Black men in America as positive and productive and progressive, while building bridges and not walls,” the group’s leader said Monday.

Chicago Sun-Times

In Chicago, Mike Pence delivers a withering rebuke of Biden’s economic policies, makes no direct references to Donald Trump

CHICAGO — Sounding like a potential presidential candidate, former Vice President Mike Pence contended Monday that the nation’s economic woes were almost entirely the result of Democratic President Joe Biden’s policies, and told an audience at the University Club of Chicago that without a turnaround, Americans will “change leadership very…

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In Chicago speech, Mike Pence delivers a withering rebuke of Biden’s economic policies, makes no direct references to Donald Trump

Reason

The ACLU Is Struggling To Find Its Identity In Post-Trump America

Despite its opposition to gun rights for individuals, the ACLU's drift away from its core mission resembles the NRA's recent trajectory.

The Conversation

No justifications, excuses or box-ticking: the art of a successful celebrity apology

Less than a week ago, American singer and rapper Lizzo set a new bar for celebrity apologies. Lizzo re-released her latest single GRRRLS after receiving criticism online, due to the first verse in the song containing an ableist slur.

Tribune News Service

100 million people in America are saddled with health care debt

Elizabeth Woodruff drained her retirement account and took on three jobs after she and her husband were sued for nearly $10,000 by the New York hospital where his infected leg was amputated.

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The Jan. 6 committee might make a comeback this month

The splashy House panel investigating the Capitol riot is gearing up to air Trump’s dirty laundry once more.

The Independent UK

Planned Parenthood: The organisation leading the fight for abortion access as Roe v Wade is overturned

From the founder’s role in introducing birth control to the US and her murky connections to the KKK and eugenics, to the organisation taking on the Pennsylvania governor in the Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood has long been at the forefront of the fight for reproductive rights, writes Rachel Sharp

The Conversation

How the Ukraine war is benefiting Russian insurers – and pushing up insurance premiums everywhere

An EU/UK plan to ban their insurers from providing cover to ships transporting Russian oil is causing tensions with Washington. America contends that Europe’s dominance of global insurance will make it very difficult for Russia to export oil if this goes ahead, potentially pushing oil prices far higher than they…

The Independent UK

Jan 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger shares death threat letter mailed to his family home

Outgoing congressman urges Americans to ‘wake up’ to threats of violence

Reason

Self-Defense Is Sexy

In America, social change often comes after a politician or government goes too heavily on offense against individuals wishing merely to stand their ground and assert their rights.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Can intermarriage spare California from America’s identity politics?

The boundaries of Americans’ partisan identities now predominantly overlap with the boundaries of our personal identities. As a result, American politics are now profoundly connected to questions of “who we are” and, not surprisingly, intransigent.

WEKU

How to properly celebrate Juneteenth in the age of commercialization

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, editor of the Black Agenda, about celebrating Juneteenth without misappropriating the holiday.

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