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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Apr 11, 20214 min read
Portugal: 2nd Phase of COVID-19 Vaccinations
The second and final phase of Portugal’s vaccination rollout begins on April 12 and aims to pick up the pace by, largely, using age as a...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Apr 9, 20216 min read
Portugal: Arson Caused Half of 2020 Forest Fires
The author gets ready to bush-cut her 1.6 hectares, or 4 acres (Photo by Betsy Steel) Dry weather and warm temperatures in central...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Apr 2, 20211 min read
"Home Thoughts from Abroad" by Robert Browning
The River Tamar is a boundary between the English counties of Cornwall and Devon. I lived less than a mile from Horsebridge on the...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 31, 20214 min read
Go West, Black Woman
1980 Summer Program for Minority Journalists at the University of California at Berkeley of 19 reporters with editors and photographers...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 26, 20212 min read
Shifting Burden of Fear in Portugal
Those sitting and socializing in the sun keep an informal watch on Portuguese villages. (Photo by dnoticias) When my son was in...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 19, 20213 min read
British Blacks Don't Give the Nod
"The Problem We All Live With," a Norman Rockwell painting, depicts Ruby Bridges on her way to an all-white school in New Orleans in...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 12, 20215 min read
Royal Family: Racism Isn’t Binary
Meghan and Prince Harry at their 2018 wedding (Photo by Steve Parsons / AFP/Getty Images) The Duchess of Sussex said that there were...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 12, 20214 min read
EU’s 4th Vaccine Amid 1 Million New Cases
“We are still not where we want to be,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in February. “We were late to authorize....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 2, 20214 min read
Portugal: One Year of COVID-19
Bicycling in quiet streets during an extended lockdown COVID-19 has been in Portugal one year as the country is in the midst of a third...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 26, 20218 min read
My Little Brother Is Schizophrenic
My brother and I The following piece, I wrote nine years ago. I remembered it when I wrote about the mentally ill Black man, Daniel...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 26, 20214 min read
Rochester Death: Taking Mental Illness Out of the Attic
Daniel Prude with Rochester Police Department officers (Photo by Associated Press) My little brother is schizophrenic. For a few years,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 25, 20218 min read
Secret Jury Records in Black Man’s Death to Be Released
Daniel Prude, 41 New York State Attorney General Letitia James made an unusual move in the death of Daniel Prude, ruled a homicide by the...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 24, 20210 min read
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 23, 20211 min read
Ron Settles' Family Turns Pain Into Purpose
Reginald Ronnell Settles, a star football player at California State University in Long Beach, was on his way to a summer job when...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 20, 20211 min read
Drowning in Numbers
I’m drowning in an alphabet soup of numbers. Drowning. Drowning. Police: Killings of Blacks Protests Convictions Weather (Unseasonable):...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 14, 20217 min read
Trump Dodges Conviction - Again
The U.S. Senate acquits Donald Trump of inciting insurrection The fifth day of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s second impeachment...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 13, 20216 min read
Trump’s Defense: An Alternate Reality
If convicted, former U.S. President Donald Trump may be barred from public office (Photo by The Associated Press) The defense of former...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 12, 20216 min read
Plea for Senate Winter Patriots
“What is impeachable conduct, if not this?" asked Rep. Jamie Raskin (right) yesterday. (Art by NBC News) Whether the United States Senate...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 11, 20213 min read
Capitol Rioters in Plato’s Cave
Take-over of the Capitol only one month ago (Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Common) Watching former President Donald J. Trump’s second...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 9, 20213 min read
American Fascism on Trial
An insurrectionist at the Capitol holding the battle flag for the Confederates during the Civil War (Photo by Reuters) Former United...
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