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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. Emancipation Proclamation
The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer.
Whereas, the having slaves taught to write, or suffering them to be employed in writing, may be attended with great inconveniences; Be it enacted, that all and every person and persons whatsoever, who shall hereafter teach or cause any slave or slaves to be taught to write, or shall use or employ any slave as a scribe, in any manner of writing whatsoever, hereafter taught to write, every such person or persons shall, for every such offense, forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, current money. Excerpt from South Carolina Act of 1740 Slave Code
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This weekend, Juneteenth celebrations happened across the country commemorating the end of slavery ― the day when black men and women were ordered to be released from their chains. The question is, are we truly free?
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued January 1, 1863, but it wasn’t until the surrender of General Lee in 1865 that the news of freedom began to spread across the country. In Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, without social media or television news, and relying on the will of the slave master, many did not know they were free until a Unionist leader, Gordon Granger, landed in Galveston. Today, in black communities across the country we celebrate Juneteenth, for what is known to many as a day of true independence.
Today, freedom looks like a majority white jury acquitting the police officer who shot a black man, not once or twice, but seven times in just over a minute during a traffic stop for a simple broken taillight. When asked for his identification, Philando Castile disclosed to the officer that he had a gun in the vehicle, intending to allay the officer’s fears as he reached for his identification. Nonetheless, even as Philando Castile tried to comply with the officer’s request, and reached for his identification, he was violently killed. We all witnessed Philando’s life end on Facebook Live, while his girlfriend filmed the incident, and her young child sat helplessly in the back seat. The police officer, claiming that he feared for his life, said the shooting was justified and today, that officer is free, while our community mourns yet another life that does not matter to a system that claims to provide justice for all.
After the acquittal was announced the day before hundreds of Juneteenth celebrations around the country, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton quite appropriately asked, “would this have happened if the driver were white?” We all know the answer to that question.
Our communities remain chained, bound by a criminal justice system that serves not to protect us, but to keep us in our place. African Americans make up the largest percentage of those in jails and prisons and they are overwhelmingly the victims of police shootings. The criminal justice system piles on fees on those that are poor and holds them in jails because they are too poor to post bond. The overwhelming majority of these poor people are people of color. Quite simply, for African Americans, the criminal justice system isn’t just broken, it literally works against us by profiting off our pain, tears, and our lives.
Philando Castile joins the long list of free black men and boys who have been murdered by police. Demoralized in the public square of social media as yet another hashtag, this a reminder that black men, even those who are compliant with the law are viewed as a threat, chained by a system that continues to sees us as three-fifths a person―even property.
It should come as no surprise that our schools fail to educate our black babies. The achievement gap in education between black and white students persists despite the supposed focus on closing this gap. Based on an assessment by the National Assessment of Educational Progress , the black and white gaps for 12th graders remain unacceptably large and, significantly, not very different from where the gaps were in 1965 after the Civil Rights Act was signed. Black literacy is a threat to a slave system.
Even when educated, our black boys may be murdered, without cause, for holding a packet of skittles or may be forced to watch their mothers be shot by police after calling the police for help and to report a burglary. The challenges our communities face are steep and seem never ending. Not only does the education system fail to adequately educate our kids, it burdens them with more out of school suspensions than their white counterparts. “Zero tolerance” policies criminalize minor infractions of school rules and police are too often brought in to address behavior that should be handled by school personnel. Students of color are especially vulnerable to push out trends and discriminatory application of discipline. Right here in Denver, the most diverse city in Colorado, our public school system remains the most segregated in the state.
I don’t ever want to ignore the tremendous progress we have made as a community and as a nation. We passed or otherwise enacted the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action. We even elected an African American as our president. But we must see through an authentic lens that vestiges of slavery exist to this day and we must collectively, intentionally and affirmatively confront these vestiges. As a policy maker and activist, I ask the question, what would it take to reach that promised land, to break the chains that bind us?
On January 1st, 1863, the slaves were set free. Have you received the good news?

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When it comes to real fake news, the kind of disinformation that Russia deployed during the 2016 elections, “going viral” isn’t just a metaphor.
Using the tools for modelling the spread of infectious disease, cyber-risk researchers at Stanford Engineering are analyzing the spread of fake news much as if it were a strain of Ebola. “We want to find the most effective way to cut the transmission chains, correct the information if possible and educate the most vulnerable targets,” says Elisabeth Paté-Cornell (link is external) , a professor of management science and engineering. She has long specialized in risk analysis and cybersecurity and is overseeing the research in collaboration with Travis I. Trammell, a doctoral candidate at Stanford. Here are some of the key learnings:
The researchers have adapted a model for understanding diseases that can infect a person more than once. It looks at how many people are “susceptible” to the disease – or in this case, likely to believe a piece of fake news. It also looks at how many have been exposed to it, and how many are actually “infected” and believe the story; and how many people are likely to spread a piece of fake news.
Much like a virus, the researchers say that over time being exposed to multiple strains of fake news can wear down a person’s resistance and make them increasingly susceptible. The more times a person is exposed to a piece of fake news, especially if it comes from an influential source, the more likely they are to become persuaded or infected.
The so-called “power law’” of social media, a well-documented pattern in social networks, holds that messages replicate most rapidly if they are targeted at relatively small numbers of influential people with large followings.
Researchers are also looking at the relative effectiveness of trolls versus bots. Trammell says bots, which are automated programs that masquerade as people, tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content. Think here of a message with the image of Hillary Clinton behind bars and the words “Lock Her Up!” That kind of message will spread rapidly within the echo chambers populated by those who already agree with the basic sentiment. Bots have considerable power to inflame people who are already like-minded, though they can be easier to detect and block than trolls.
By contrast, trolls are typically real people who spread provocative stories and memes. Trolls can be better at persuading people who are less convinced and want more information.
Paté-Cornell and Trammell say there is considerable evidence that the elderly, the young and the lesser educated are particularly susceptible to fake news. But in the broadest sense it is partisans at the political extremes, whether liberal or conservative, who are most like to believe a false story in part because of confirmation bias – the tendency in all of us to believe stories that reinforce our convictions – and the stronger those convictions, the more powerfully the person feels the pull of confirmation bias.
Paté-Cornell and Trammell say that, much like ordinary crime, disinformation will never disappear. But by learning how it is propagated through social media, the researchers say it’s possible to fight back. Social media platforms could become much quicker at spotting suspect content. They could then attach warnings – a form of inoculation – or they could quarantine more of it.
The challenge, they say, is that protection has costs – financial costs as well as reduced convenience and limitations on free expression. Paté-Cornell says the dangers of fake news should be analyzed as a strategic management risk similar to how we have traditionally analyzed the risks posed by cyberattacks aimed at disabling critical infrastructure. “It’s an issue of how we can best manage our resources in order to minimize the risk,” she says. “How much are you willing to spend, and what level of risk are we willing to accept?”
Fake news is already a national security issue. But Paté-Cornell and Trammell predict that artificial intelligence will turbocharge fake news in the years ahead. AI will make it much easier to target people with fake news or deep-fake videos – videos that appear real but have been fabricated in whole or in part – that are finely tailored to what a susceptible viewer is likely to accept and perhaps spread. AI could also make it easy to create armies of more influential bots that appear to share a target’s social background, hometown, personal interests or religious beliefs. Such kinds of hyper-targeting would make the messages much more persuasive. AI also shows great potential to counter this scourge by identifying fake content in all forms, but only time will tell who prevails in this new age arms race.
Related | Elisabeth Paté-Cornell (link is external) , the Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering.
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Do you spread the good news of what God has done in your life to others? Have people noticed a change in you and you let them know that it was no one but God? Is your spirit filled with excitement when you engage in conversations about spreading the good news and of God’s wonderful ways?
My church, The House of the Lord Church- Bergen County, NJ, is the poster child for “each one bring one” based off of spreading the good news. 11 years ago my sistah from another mistah was doing her part in spreading the good news when she invited me to attend her church. Within months, I felt God transforming my life that I was led to invite my brother who then months later invited my mom. As a family we began attending church based off the good news we received about Jesus and how mighty God is. I have a passion for spreading the good news of how God has brought me from a mighty long way. I love my church, and I’m always compelled to extend an invitation to people who I feel led to invite. I want people to experience the same good news that I receive from my Pastor and church family.
The ending of last year I invited my friend whom I refer to as my little sister to church because I knew she was experiencing a difficult time in her life. I knew that even though I was giving her encouraging words, sometimes you have to be in the house of the Lord amongst other believers to receive the good news. This year, after facing another trial, she made the decision to visit my church again in April. She received a word that was life changing and has been attending faithfully since April 29, 2018. Every Sunday, she would go home spreading the good news to her mom, and her mom began to see a change in her. Her mom decided that she would attend church with her one Sunday to see what the good news was all about. Even when her mom wasn’t visiting she would send in her tithes and offerings to our church. The good news my “sister” was spreading began to impact her mother’s life and now she attends our church faithfully. My sister experienced God work in her life in a mighty way, that she was excited to spread the good news to her best friend who lives all the way in Long Island. Her bestfriend noticed the change and had been needing to hear a word from God. For the past 3 Sundays her bestfriend has made her way to Bergen County, NJ from Long Island to hear the good news of God.
So many of us are looking for a word from God or need a church home to connect to hear His word. Spreading the good news is so important because you don’t know whose life you can help transform. Whether spreading the good news about the encounters you’ve had with God or inviting someone to church who has been looking for a church home helps God reach more people. Spreading the good news impacts so many lives, which is the reason why God wants us to spread His word. Don’t keep God’s good news to yourself. Spread the good news and tell of all His wonderful deeds that He has done for you.

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