School District Determines Black Student’s Locs Must Be Shorter

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Darryl George lost the fight to keep his locs at a certain length

On Thursday, a judge ruled that Barbers Hill Independent School District’s dress code does not violate the CROWN ACT, which prohibits race-based hair discrimination in Texas workplaces, schools, and housing policies.

According to NBC News, the decision was met with frustration by George’s family and tears from the teenager, who still could not accept the court’s choice.

Source: School District Determines Black Student’s Locs Must Be Shorter

Diário das coisas que não aconteceram – O Outro Lado

Limpei a nossa rua…
varri certas loucuras à noite
-do tipo verdes e pequenas.

Sabia que ainda venta muito
sem Você?
Fico de sombra em sombra…
dá um azar danado pisar
no pedaço iluminado
que limpei.

Aden Leonardo
Diário das coisas que não aconteceram
Scenarium Livros Artesanais

Source: Diário das coisas que não aconteceram – O Outro Lado

João Guimarães Rosa – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Para esquerda fui, contigo. Coração soube escolher.”

 

João Guimarães Rosa

ROSA, João Guimarães. Sagarana. Apresentação: Walnice Nogueira  Galvão. 1 ed. São Paulo: Global, 2019

 

Marii Freire.

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 22 de fevereiro de 2024

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Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay

  • Wildfires consuming more than 100 square kilometers (38 square miles) of tropical rainforest shouldn’t happen, yet they are becoming more and more frequent.      
  • Because of its intense humidity and tall trees, fire does not occur spontaneously in the Amazon; usually accidental, forest fires are caused by uncontrolled small fires coming from crop burning, livestock management or clear-cutting.
  • Scientists say the rainforest is becoming increasingly flammable, even in areas not directly related to deforestation; fire is now spreading faster and higher, reaching more than 10 meters (32 feet) in height.

“When I see the rainforest burning, I know what I’m really seeing is Amazonia dying. I see that fire and, as a scientist, I know how much that hectare will lose in terms of individual lives, how much carbon will be emitted and how much the process accelerates climate changes,” states Erika Berenguer, a Brazilian researcher at the University of Oxford. “At the same time, I lose a part of myself — my identity as a human being, as a scientist, is very tied into it. It’s in the soil, in the rainforest, walking in the forest every day…”

Smoke from a megafire in the municipality of Belterra, in the state of Pará. Image courtesy of Marizilda Cruppe/RAS.

Source: Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay

Steve Ruis: Alabama’s Nutty Supreme Court Invents a New Religious Theory | Diane Ravitch’s blog

In Vitro Fertilization clinics across Alabama—and elsewhere—are panicked. Couples use IVF when they can’t conceive; typically, they freeze more than they need because, for whatever reason, some of those embryos fail. One couple I know froze 10 embryos; they now have two beautiful, healthy children. But if the Alabama ruling were commonly endorsed, the other eight frozen embryos could never be destroyed. Long after the parents are dead, long after their grandchildren are dead, the embryos would be preserved. Forever…

Source: Steve Ruis: Alabama’s Nutty Supreme Court Invents a New Religious Theory | Diane Ravitch’s blog

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – yaskhan


Scottish born Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
On medicine and writing he did toil 
As a writer and a physician 
Sherlock Holmes was his creation.

He had a fantastic imagination 
And used it with the utmost passion 
Writing plays, poems, novels, fiction 
His calibre .. a creative , unique vision 

A Bachelor of Medicine, A Master of Surgery 
He gave it all up to become an author of mystery 
Giving us Holmes and Professor Moriarty 
Not to forget Dr.Watson in this bizzy party .

Source: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – yaskhan