AvatarMelinda JonesAvatarAvatarThe Amazon's best hope? A female indigenous chief is on a mission to save Brazil's forestsNBC News - By Teresa Tomassoni"If the forest is gone, people will also end," says Ajareaty Waiapi, a female chief and grandmother working to preserve her community — and the planet's lungs. AMAPÁ, Brazil — Ajareaty Waiapi is the oldest student in her high school geography class. But attending school at the age of 59 is a …
AvatarMelinda JonesAvatarAvatarROBERT CAPA'S LONGEST DAY | Vanity FairVanity Fair - Marie BrennerSeventy years ago, the great war photographer joined the first slaughterhouse wave of D-day, recording W.W. II’s pivotal battle in 11 historic images of blur and grit. But that is only a fraction compared with what he shot—and lost
AvatarMelinda JonesAvatarAvatarOpinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expressionverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Jamal KhashoggiA note from Karen Attiah, Global Opinions editor I received this column from Jamal Khashoggi’s translator and assistant the day after Jamal was reported missing in Istanbul. The Post held off publishing it because we hoped Jamal would come back to us so that he and I could edit it together. Now I …
AvatarMelinda JonesAvatarAvatarBarbara Bush, Republican matriarch and former first lady, dies at 92verified_publisherCNNCNN — Barbara Bush, the matriarch of a Republican political dynasty and a first lady who elevated the cause of literacy, died Tuesday, according to a statement from her husband’s office. She was 92. Only the second woman in American history to have had a husband and a son elected President (Abigail …
AvatarMelinda JonesAvatarAvatarIs Trump launching a new New World Order?verified_publisherSalon - By Michael T. KlareThat Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment media. By snubbing NATO and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, we’ve been told, President Trump is dismantling the liberal world order created by Franklin …
AvatarMelinda JonesAvatarAvatarThe Rodney King We Never Knewverified_publisherMTV NewsTwenty-five years after Los Angeles rose up, how far have we come as a nation? Ten stories about the L.A. riots and the world they made. From the …
AvatarMelinda JonesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhy We Must Remember The Life Of Latasha Harlins And #SayHerNamehuffingtonpost.com - Ayofemi KirbyOver a five-day period, which ended last Monday night, and at the recommendation from multiple friends, I finally watched ESPN’s Oscar-winning …
AvatarMelinda JonesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoEgypt Pharaoh statue 'not Ramses II but different ruler'bbc.co.uk - BBC NewsAn ancient statue which was pulled from the mud in Cairo is not the Pharaoh Ramses II, but could be another king, Egypt's antiquities minister has said. Khaled el-Anani told a news conference the statue was almost certainly Psamtek I, who ruled between 664 and 610BC. Experts had thought the statue …
AvatarMelinda JonesAvatarAvatarOpinion | A Lesson in Black History (Published 2017)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Charles M. BlowLast week at a supposed Black History Month “listening session” at the White House, Donald Trump made this baffling statement: “I am very proud now that we have a museum on the National Mall where people can learn about Reverend King, so many other things. Frederick Douglass is an example of …
AvatarMelinda JonesAvatarAvatarHow MLK can get you out of your ‘Trump Slump’verified_publisherCNNCNN — Are you experiencing the following symptoms? Insomnia: No sleep because you dread what happens over the next four years. Hallucinations: You keep thinking that what you saw on TV last November must be a bad dream. Fits of rage: You’ve unfriended half of your Facebook friends and you won’t talk to …
AvatarMelinda JonesAvatarAvatarWhen Hillary and Donald Were Friends (Published 2016)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Maureen DowdThe sensational, spidery plot of the most gripping game of thrones in modern history is best captured by two images. The first is from Donald J. Trump’s extravagant third wedding at his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2005: The junior senator from New York, glowing in gold silk and pearls, smiles up at the …