The news comes as the organization behind the Grammys is facing scrutiny over its secretive voting system and alleged biases against Black and female artists. The 63rd annual event will air this Sunday.
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March 12, 2021
HYDERABAD: Every year, Hajan Leghari, a farmer in Village Kandri near Jhudo, spares a small piece of land to cultivate kalonji (Nigella sativa) for its black seeds that have been being consumed as seasoning and as herbal medicine for the last 2000 years – it was found in the tomb of a pharaoh.
“Whenever harvest starts in March our relatives and family friends expect us to give them a little amount of black seeds for use,” Leghari said.
Families would keep kalonji in their kitchens for different purposes, mostly for its health benefits, he said.
Leghari said though agriculture was rapidly changing with the introduction of technology, hybrid seeds for crops, and high density varieties of fruits, some farmers were still cultivating these traditional crops, which needed little water and fertiliser.
Hollywood Losing $10 Billion Annually to Racial Inequality, New Study Shows
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March 11, 2021
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The pervasive issues of systemic racial inequality are costing the entertainment industry roughly $10 billion a year, according to a new study released on Thursday by McKinsey and Company. In a six-month study of the barriers facing Black professionals within the film and TV industries looking primarily at the years between 2015 and 2019 McKinsey found that addressing racial inequities in who makes content and how that content is marketed and distributed could result in a 7% increase in annual revenues across the board.
The findings which drew in part from studies by UCLA and USC, as well as data from
Opinion: Fair Share Zoning the right thing, the smart thing
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An affordable housing development under construction in Stamford in 2016.File photo
Connecticut is facing a series of crises. We are at the bottom of the barrel in terms of segregation, income inequality, housing affordability, infrastructure and economic mobility and in the bottom half of states for fiscal stability. Over 208,000 families in Connecticut earning less than half of the median income (about $50,000 for a family of four) are paying over half of their income or more towards housing costs. The extent to which COVID-19 has ravaged Black and Latino communities is a palpable reflection of this inequality.