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Jul 20, 2024 | 
postnewsgroup.com | Keenan Norris
By Keenan Norris, Special to California Black Media PartnersOne moment, I was decompressing after my day at work in Oakland, the next I was being called home to Southern California to learn something too serious for telephone conversation. I remember playing the same song for the entire six-hour drive down south.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
sdvoice.info | Keenan Norris
By Keenan Norris, Special to California Black Media PartnersOne moment, I was decompressing after my day at work in Oakland, the next I was being called home to Southern California to learn something too serious for telephone conversation. I remember playing the same song for the entire six-hour drive down south.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
altaonline.com | Keenan Norris
Once upon a time, long before ChatGPT and social media roamed the virtual earth, I was a 25-year-old adjunct English instructor at a Bay Area community college. Grading a student’s final paper, I discovered that she had plagiarized, lifting paragraphs verbatim and without attribution from a New York Times article.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Keenan Norris
1 day agoAt Harvard and elsewhere, an old falsehood is capturing new minds. By now, December’s congressional hearing about anti-Semitism at universities, during which the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT all claimed that calls for the genocide of Jews would violate their …
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Keenan Norris |Ron Cole-Turner |Peter W. Marty |Benjamin Dueholm
Chi Boy is in style and in form a pastiche, with the city of Chicago as its axis mundi. Keenan Norris presents Chicago as both the existential and the historical touchstone for the composite American that is the Black man, from Richard Wright to Jeff Fort to Barack Obama to those who died young either in the city or in deep connection with it: Emmett Till, Yummy Sandifer, and even a young Black woman, Hadiya Pendleton.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
strangersguide.com | Keenan Norris
Not long after the end of World War II, a family of three travels from Canton, Ohio, to Chicago, Illinois. They are moving between great factory-powered provinces, but really they are Southerners: The man is from Birmingham, the woman from old, rural Florida, and she is beautiful and sad as everything raised there is. The child, known to close family as Butch, meanwhile, is an infant born in the passage: Unlike his parents, he is a Northerner.
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Jul 3, 2023 | 
rockdalenewtoncitizen.com | Keenan Norris |A. Lamont Williams
When AB 1887 was passed into law in 2016, its purpose was to name, shame and boycott four states - Tennessee, Kansas, North Carolina and Mississippi - which had passed laws that discriminated against LGBTQ+ persons. The law bans state-funded and state-sponsored travel to places with discriminatory laws. That list has grown now to 23 banned states. But the measure has failed to curb American prejudice.
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Jul 3, 2023 | 
henryherald.com | Keenan Norris |A. Lamont Williams
When AB 1887 was passed into law in 2016, its purpose was to name, shame and boycott four states — Tennessee, Kansas, North Carolina and Mississippi — which had passed laws that discriminated against LGBTQ+ persons. The law bans state-funded and state-sponsored travel to places with discriminatory laws. That list has grown now to 23 banned states. But the measure has failed to curb American prejudice.
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Jul 3, 2023 | 
gwinnettdailypost.com | Keenan Norris |A. Lamont Williams
When AB 1887 was passed into law in 2016, its purpose was to name, shame and boycott four states — Tennessee, Kansas, North Carolina and Mississippi — which had passed laws that discriminated against LGBTQ+ persons. The law bans state-funded and state-sponsored travel to places with discriminatory laws. That list has grown now to 23 banned states. But the measure has failed to curb American prejudice.
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Jul 3, 2023 | 
scribd.com | Keenan Norris |A. Lamont Williams
When AB 1887 was passed into law in 2016, its purpose was to name, shame and boycott four states — Tennessee, Kansas, North Carolina and Mississippi — which had passed laws that discriminated against LGBTQ+ persons. The law bans state-funded and state-sponsored travel to places with discriminatory laws. That list has grown now to 23 banned states. But the measure has failed to curb American prejudice. Commentators have decried the ineffectiveness of such performative politics, noting how even
