New Evidence Regarding Malcolm X’s Assassination Names NYPD, FBI As Co-Conspirators NewsOne
Texas
Texas inmates stuck with clogged toilets, freezing cells, advocates say: ‘So cold that their bodies are numb’ Houston Chronicle
Texas water crisis: 13 million lack drinking water Axios
Texas Is Facing a Food Supply Nightmare in Wake of Blackouts Bloomberg
CFO at Jerry Jones’ gas company on rising prices due to Texas freeze: ‘Like hitting the jackpot’
Many Texans have died because of the winter storm. Just how many won’t be known for weeks or months. Texas Tribune
Southern cities hit hard by storms face new crisis: No water AP
Google fires Margaret Mitchell, another top researcher on its AI ethics team Guardian
The dismissal comes after prominent Black researcher Timnit Gebru was fired in December; both had called for more diversity among research staff
Pandemic economy
Reopening Schools in the Pandemic Reveals a Class Divide Capital & Main
Kroger To Close Seattle Stores To Avoid Law Requiring Hazard Pay For Employees Labor411
How One Employer Stuck a New Mom With an $898,984 Bill for Her Premature Baby ProPublica
Dignity Health said its employee, an ER nurse, failed to meet the deadline to add her premature newborn to its health plan, so she was responsible for the medical bills.
Just 0.3% of federal student borrowers attended Ivy League colleges
As U.S. pork plant speeds up slaughtering, workers report more injuries Reuters
Cantor CEO Lutnick Likens Tesla, Bitcoin Surges to GameStop Saga Bloomberg
The F-35’s Engine Is a Bit Busted Right Now Popular Mechanics
Jobs
The Gig Economy Is Coming for Millions of American Jobs Bloomberg
California’s vote to classify Uber and Lyft drivers as contractors has emboldened other employers to eliminate salaried positions—and has become a cornerstone of bigger plans to “Uberize” the U.S. workforce.
Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising, new Census report shows Reuters
US jobless claims rise to 861,000 as layoffs stay high AP
Joe Ligon was locked up at age 15. Almost seven decades later, he’s reentering an unfamiliar world. Washington Post
US President Biden says no to ‘defunding the police’ Al Jazeera
United States President Joe Biden said that instead of defunding the police, a main demand of the protest movement that erupted last year following the death of a Black man in police custody, he would put more money into local policing.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot spent $281.5 million in federal COVID-19 relief money on police payroll Chicago Tribune
#COVID19
African Union says Russia offers 300 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine Reuters
Why Do Democrats Pretend Andrew Cuomo Did a Good Job With COVID? Slate
Getting a Covid shot at a time of health care corruption Lucy Komisar
How a Trinidadian Communist Invented London’s Biggest Party NYTimes
Offline: The Paris Commune and the birth of American medicine Lancet
Trump Hotel Employees Reveal What It Was Really Like Catering to the Right Wing Elite Washingtonian
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