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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: 1619 and the Koch Safety Crisis

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Kevin Jarrett, Creative Commons. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

  • The New York Times’ groundbreaking 1619 Project marks the 400th anniversary of slavery in America and traces its legacy to the present day 
     
  • An ICE officer steered his truck into a crowd of protesters that included children and a wheelchair user–then calmly parked and went to work
     
  • The worker safety crisis at Koch-owned Georgia Pacific 
     
  • How Gamergate touched off a new culture war