tipping in the US
why we do it
30% chance
of passing
Black Panthers on why they opened a clinic in Chicago in 1969
the contradictions within the system
Jessica Tisch
billionaire on the NYPD
Violence is never the answer
but is always the answer the system provides
the definition of words in relation to power
the definition of violence and who gets to use it and how
John Green on Tuberculosis at the UN
John Green's speech at the United Nations High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis. Let's get the cure to where the disease is.
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