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Towards a Future of African Magazines
Lack of funding is an unfortunate scenario that has bedeviled a great number of African literary magazines and companies like ours, too. Save for a number of magazines such as Omenana, Agbowo, Olongo Africa, Isele magazine, and others who pay, the many others do not.
A Month’s-End Associated Press (AP) Photographic Celebration of: SLAP
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The Coming Home Health Care Conundrum
Chinese American Planning Council President and CEO Wayne Ho joins the pod to talk about what Albany can do to make the economics of this work for New York’s aging population, respond to Assemblymember Ron Kim’s charge that CPC is waging a “war on workers,” and much more.
Biden Requests Record Defense Budget Even Before Congress Boosts It
President Biden proposed a record $813 billion in defense funding, which experts called a boon to weapons contractors developing nuclear weapons.
ICYMI: Republicans Heart Putin
gazing into the soul of the Republican Party's deepening admiration for the Russian dictator
Navy Seeks to Quietly Mothball Billions Worth of Faulty Ships
The expensive Littoral Combat Ships, only seven years old, were expected to serve for 25 years.
EVERYDAY SLAUGHTER
My mother knew I loved rearing livestock, chickens especially. When I was young, she bought a goat for me. Three days after we brought it home, the animal died. "Your nature might not align with the goat," she said. "Does that mean I can't rear any livestock?" Sadness encroached. "Don't worry. Let's try a hen."
Female Scholarship In Islam Is Challenging Patriarchal Leadership
For so long, I had grown up believing that social justice discourse, particularly through a gendered lens, was a completely separate sphere from Islamic discussions.