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Patricia Maginnis, RIP

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I often think about W.E.B. DuBois' lifespan. Born in 1868, he grew up in the possibilities of Reconstruction and Black equality (even as a northerner, it's not as if Black equality was achieved in the Massachusetts of his youth). That quickly turned sour. DuBois fought his...

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Last night, I saw Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney at the Columbus Theater in Providence. This was my first indoor show since the pandemic began. There was a vaccination.

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I did Nazi this coming

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Or maybe I did: Stephen Miller seemed floored by the idea, raised during a fall Cabinet meeting in 2018, of  keeping open the doors for Afghan allies and other Middle East refugees to enter the US.  "What do you guys want?" Miller, then a top adviser to President...
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