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The number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan – over an aggregate 44 years of fighting is almost exactly the same as the number of Americans who’ve now lost their lives to coronavirus in just three months of America’s war against the hidden enemy, as Donald Trump likes to refer to Covid-19.
They didn’t all have to die — a moment of reflection as US Covid deaths reach 100,000
The desperate toll passed into six figures on Wednesday afternoon: 100,000 victims, who were living Americans several months ago, when the viciously infectious virus made landfall.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/27/politics/100000-deaths-moment-of-reflection/index.html
NYC woman in viral Central Park video is fired: ‘We do not tolerate racism’
The white woman walking her dog in New York City who called police to report she was being threatened by “an African-American man” has been fired by investment firm Franklin Templeton.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-woman-in-viral-central-park-video-is-fired-we-do-not-tolerate-racism
TV host Jimmy Fallon ‘very sorry’ for 2000 blackface skit
NBC’s Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon has apologised for wearing blackface in a Saturday Night Live skit from 2000.
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‘Stop killing black people’: George Floyd’s death sparks protests in Minneapolis, Memphis and Los Angeles
May 28, 2020
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Jodie Alleyne
Protesters clashed with police in Minneapolis. They chanted for justice in Memphis. They stopped freeway traffic in Los Angeles.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/27/george-floyd-los-angeles-protesters-black-lives-matter/5272030002/
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