Put this in your pocket.
Do you need a little bit of joy? I came across an article in the New York Times last month, and maybe you saw it too. If you did, surely you’ll want to see it again. If not, you’ll want to see it again too.
Chill of December
Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed by the United States, December 8. Following a delay on account of her lawyers contracting COVID-19, she is now set to die January 12, 2021. If she is executed on that date, she will be the first female federal inmate executed in nearly seventy years, and the 55th woman executed since 1900.
What’s Going On
It’s been nearly fifty years since the release of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, the landmark album on which he set aside love songs to sing about social issues, such as war, poverty, racism, police brutality, and environmental destruction.
Thinking of Thanks
This Melanie Tannenbaum article from Scientific American ruminates on what we, in theory, all know: that gratitude is good for us, all year round. This year, may we challenge ourselves to take in the lessons of gratitude by distance. Being apart can never again be a reason not to give thanks.
Thirteenth of March — Part Three
Louisville and America wait for a fresh, young Attorney General to deliver justice for Breonna Taylor.
How about now?
It’s now been nearly three weeks since Election Day, and more than two weeks since the Presidential race was called for Joe Biden.
Fifty-Three
Every year, November 20 is observed as the Transgender Day of Remembrance, in honor of transgender people lost in the previous year. Transgender Day of Remembrance, or TDOR, is preceded by Transgender Awareness Week. The goal is to bring national and worldwide awareness to anti-transgender violence, and put a stop to it.
Government Transformed
November is when we observe Transgender Awareness Week. But Election Day also brought a huge week for LGBTQ candidates. While many might have thought the Presidential election was the only thing happening (not unusual), this November down-ballot races made a substantial bit of history: LGBTQ history.
Thinking Greenwood: Back to Business
Most Americans are in agreement: 2020 is nobody’s favorite year. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only sickened 11 million Americans and killed a quarter of a million. Its wreaked financial havoc and ruined livelihoods across the country, as we’ve shut down schools and much of our economy trying to stem deaths and illness.
The work starts here
One question of what comes next for America has been answered. Based on the late progression of close-call vote counts in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia, it was officially projected yesterday that the 46th President of the United States will take office in January.