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What your choice of selfie angle says about you What your choice of selfie angle says about you Selfie-takers, in their choice of pose and other pictorial features, provide nonverbal, social and emotional signals to their viewers. Over the past decade, selfies have become a mainstay of popular culture. If the #selfie hashtag first appeared in 2004, it was the release of the iPhone 4 in 2010 that saw the pictures go viral. Three years later, the Oxford English Dictionary crowned “selfie” wor...

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Email A look inside the Green Book, which guided Black travelers through a segregated and hostile America The guides creator knew the racist dangers Black motorists faced in the 1940s through the 1960s and hoped one day his Green Books wouldnt be needed George Petras and Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY Published 11:53 am UTC Feb. 21, 2021 For Black travelers driving across segregated America in the 40s, 50s and 60s, the Negro Motorist Green Book was more than a travel aid – it was a guide for keep...

and last updated 2021-03-01 07:45:59-05 Throughout the 1900s, thousands of cities across America banned Black people from becoming residents or even being within city limits after dark. These cities were called “sundown towns” and several could be found throughout the state of Colorado. “We don’t necessarily have a complete record of all the sundown towns in Colorado. There are a few that posted banners or posted signs to make sure that people knew,” said Black American...

Alexus Braxton, 45, was found dead Feb. 4 inside her northeast Miami-Dade home at the Carmel at the California Condominiums. According to the Human Rights Campaign, Braxtons death is at least the sixth violent death of a transgender person in 2021 and the first of the year in Miami-Dade County. 2020 was considered the most fatally violent year for transgender people, according to the HRC. Police and animal services officers in Miami are cracking down on the leash laws after an unleashed...

“You just couldn’t go,” Pinkney, a Miami resident, told NBC 6. A database at Tougaloo College lists Miami Beach and Coral Gables as potential “Sundown Towns.” The historian behind the database, James Loewen, went on to detail them in a book titled “Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism.”   Local historians Marvin Dunn and Dr. Paul George say many towns with “beach” in their names were “Sundown Towns” because Black people had to be off the beach after dark...

The guides creator knew the racist dangers Black motorists faced in the 1940s through the 1960s and hoped one day his Green Books wouldnt be needed

The Laws of Settlements book available for free online! Are there fundamental laws that govern all settlements—from the smallest village to the largest cities? This is the question that drove me to write The Laws of Settlements and continues to propel my research on landscape—a term that I use to describe the complex and continuous dialogue between people and non-human natural systems.  It was a question that I thought—and continue to believe—belongs to everybody: one whose answer is ...