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How Right-Wing Textbooks Shape What Many Americans Know

This past summer's uproar over "Try That in a Small Town," a song by country music star Jason Aldean, is over—but with the school year underway, the controversy over the song remains an instructive example of the repercussions of America’s dangerously fractured education system. “Try That in a Small Town” topped the charts despite echoing the ugliest bits of America’s violent racist past. The accompanying music video even took place at the site of an infamous 1927 lynching, and originally appeared to warn Black Lives Matter protesters not to “try that in a small town.

Ladies! Here's why guys suddenly stop showing interest in you after some time

Many women are all too familiar with men who sweep into the scene; showing all the interest, sending endless messages, giving compliments and following all these up with even more attention. After all the work and effort to get attention, what then follows is a disappearance act that surpasses a magician’s. After all the warmth shown in the beginning to get themselves noticed, what they do next is go cold turkey - no more calls, no more attention.

Mark Zuckerberg, wife Priscilla Chan promise to give 99% of their wealth to charity

- Facebook's CEO and wife Priscilla Chan, have promised to donate 99% of their wealth to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) - CZI is seeking to control and eliminate all human diseases and also improve the quality of education around the world - The donation will go towards providing necessary but expensive tools used by teachers, doctors and scientists to help them achieve their goals Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan, have announced that they will donate 99% of their earnings to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI).

No Going Back On Centenary Celebrations Despite Boko Haram TerrorFG

The Federal Government on Wednesday continued preparations for celebrations of the 100 years of Nigeria’s amalgamation despite the killings in some parts of the country.  * Vice-President Sambo Only on Tuesday, the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, killed 43  pupils when they attacked  the  Federal Government College in Buni Yadi, Yobe State. The insurgents, who were said to have arrived at the college at about 2am when the pupils were already asleep, reportedly set  locked hostels on fire before shooting and slitting the throats of those who tried to escape through the windows.