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Jeremiah Armstead, a 19-year-old teen from Los Angeles who was homeless while in high school, has been accepted at Fisk University, an HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee, and will play basketball for its team. “Any type of adversity that I went through, for the most part, it motivated me and pushed me,” Armstead said he felt Read More…
The FDA Is Coming for Your Almond Milk Really? This is what the government cares about right now? Is it milk? Aditya Ali/EyeEm/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When you drop a box of almond milk into your shopping cart, or order an oat-milk latte, are you being Read More…
Women’s Prisons Are Filled With Domestic Violence Survivors. A New Type of Law Could Help Them Get Out. It passed in New York, and now other states may follow Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. April Rose Wilkens called me last month from a prison cell in Oklahoma, Read More…
Friday takeaways: Eastern Greene unleashes the beast in Lewis “He was able to play all four quarters,” Eastern coach Travis Wray said. “He’s not been able to finish one game due to cramping or different things because he’s playing both sides of the ball in all three phases. “But now we’ve gotten some guys healthy Read More…
H20/Water Shortage may cause JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and other major European banks to turn off hot water, stop fountains, and use diesel generators as Russia chokes energy supply. Office buildings, including the corporate headquarters of Deutsche Bank, stand in the financial district in the city center of Frankfurt, Germany. Foto: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images. Big banks Read More…
Is Prison Life A Concrete Jungle How was it for you after completing your first year of a 3 to 5 prison sentence? Vernie Seidel How was it for you after completing your first year of a 3 to 5 prison sentence? I never did 3–5 years. I did 29 years on a life sentence. Read More…
Life Is This, Outside The Self Lane – That’s Funny Stuff A young couple moved into a new house. The next morning while they were eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging the washing outside. “That laundry is not very clean; she doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better Read More…
By Beth Schwartzapfel What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars People in prison get “three hots and a cot,” right? So, what do they need money for? A lot, it turns out. Prisons typically provide the bare minimum when it comes to food, clothes, shoes and hygiene supplies. Some states provide items such as Read More…
Biker Give Rookie Police Officer A Lifetime Thriller – A rookie police officer pulled a biker over for speeding and had the following exchange: • Officer: May I see your driver’s license? • Biker: I don’t have one. I had it suspended when I got my 5th DUI. • Officer: May I see the owner’s Read More…
My Husband Slapped Me For The First Time Today My husband of 9 years just slapped me for the first time today in front of our son. Should I slap him back to show my husband that he will get the boomerang treatment if he hits me again and to show our son that his Read More…
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