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KISSIMMEE, Fla. — LeBron James wasted no time turning the NBA’s Disney World bubble into a platform for advocacy on social justice issues, stating Thursday that he wants the Louisville police offers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor to be arrested and encouraging Americans to view “Black Lives Matter” as a reflection of the permanent challenges facing the black community rather than as a temporary “movement.” The Los Angeles Lakers forward, basketball’s biggest star and long one of the most vocal activists among professional athletes, addressed the subjects following a 108-104 loss to the Dallas Mavericks in a scrimmage at Visa Center. “We want the cops arrested who committed that crime,” James said. “As one of the leaders of this league, I want her family to know and the state of Kentucky to know that we feel for her and we want justice. That’s what it’s all about. What’s right is right, and what’s wrong is wrong. This is a wrong situation that’s going on in my eyes.” To keep reading...

The Story of the Massacre That Destroyed Tulsa's 'Black Wall Street'

In 1921, the city of Tulsa erupted in a spasm of hate and fire that destroyed its prosperous Black district. A century later, excavators are uncovering a “crime scene.” TULSA, Okla. — Incited by a salacious and largely fabricated news story about a young Black man assaulting a white girl, a lynch mob showed up at the Tulsa city jail, where he was being held. A group of African-Americans, many of them soldiers who had returned from fighting the First World War, rushed over to help guard the young man. Fighting broke out, then shooting. The episode touched off a racist rampage. White rioters descended on the city’s Greenwood District, a Black community considered so affluent that Booker T. Washington, the author and orator, had called it “Black Wall Street.” Soon they were aided by a local National Guard unit with a water-cooled Browning machine gun. According to eyewitness accounts from 1921, planes circled overhead, shooting people as they fled and dropping incendiary devices. To keep ...

Visible Likes on Social Media Posts Lead to More Spread of Fake News

When people saw that a questionable piece of content had been liked and shared lots of times, they were more likely to share it themselves It’s time to rethink engagement metrics, say the authors of a paper published last week in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Misinformation Review . Mihai Avram , Nicholas Micallef , Sameer Patil , and Filippo Menczer found that “the display of social engagement metrics” — visible displays of how many times a piece of content has been liked and shared, i.e. the norm on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram — “can strongly influence interaction with low-credibility information. The higher the engagement, the more prone people are to sharing questionable content and less to fact checking it.” To keep reading this article, click here.

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Dave Price

This is the companion blog for Divided We Stand, an internet show on Facebook, YouTube, and Periscope produced and hosted by Brian Weinstein of Head in the Box Productions.

I'm Dave Price and I am the creator, curator, and senior contributor to Disorder in the House, as well as a regular recurring featured guest on Divided We Stand, which airs every Tuesday at 8 pm.

I operate a writing/speaking/tour guiding practice based in Washington, DC. You can click on my picture above to check out my Talking 'Bout My Generation website.