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Black Lives Matter Comes to Vidor—Yes, Vidor

“Vidor, Texas, ” boomed the Reverend Michael Cooper, thin and tall in his cowboy hat, “will now be known for love! ” The crowd, assembled at a dilapidated pavilion on the grounds of Vidor’s Raymond Gould Community Center, cheered. Vidor has been known for many things–among them the activities of …

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Revolt over easing of lockdown spreads as poll slump hits PM

Manchester mayor looses fury at Johnson plan, while public acceptance for government strategy plummets* Coronavirus- latest updates* See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson was hit by a growing uprising over his strategy for easing the Covid-1 9 lockdown last-place darknes as committee presidents across the north of England joined …

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Coronavirus: 100 days that changed the world (part 1)

What began as a whodunit virus at a Chinese marketplace in December rapidly became a global crisis. The Guardian’s Michael Safi and Patrick Wintour recount the first 100 periods as coronavirus took include, upending the lives of billions of citizens On the last day of 2019, China announced it had …

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