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Read More: #44, black lives matterThe personal, political, and historical connections between reality and representation are riven with power, beauty, contradiction, and loss. “Ms. Campbell-Coleman, a semiretired nurse in Charlotte, N.C., received this photo in…
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Read More: #43, emotional+rational resonances neededIn my previous #100hardtruth (#42) I quoted from a recent piece by Farhad Manjoo, including this line: “You might even credit cameras — or blame them — for our more…
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Read More: #15: the internet is perfect incubator for #fakenews and its material resultsFake news directs our attention to something else we know to be true that remains often harder to see: the internet’s hidden corporate architecture and governmental backbone. The foundational lies…
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Read More: #41, visualize hoaxesSee More: Hoaxy #100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy
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Read More: #40, challenge the narrative of (African) American progress“In the Library of Black Lies, Edgar Arceneaux challenges the narrative of American progress, and in particular, African American progress through the selection, placement, and modification of books in a…
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Read More: #39, reward responsible disobedianceRewarding Disobediance is offering a $250K prize for responsible disobediance: “This idea came after a realization that there’s a widespread frustration from people trying to figure out how can we…
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Read More: #38, the NEA matters, fight for the least-seen to speak truth to powerTwenty years ago, on March 13, 1997, Frank Rich penned an op-ed, “Lesbian Lookout,” in support of the NEA, which was under threat. The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996), which…
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Read More: #37, size matters; we have to be minimalist“We have to be minimalist. A small event, if we can understand it, reconciles us a little bit with the world.” Agnès Varda In my conversation with Agnès Varda about…
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Read More: #36, history is realInvoluntary immigration is an alternative fact. See More: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Data Base The suppression of the African slave trade to the United State of America, 1638-1870, W.E.B. Du…
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Read More: #35, science is realSee More: junkscience.com InsideClimate News 350.org March for Science, Earth Day, April 22, 2017 #100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy