China warns Ukraine crisis could wreak global economic havoc for decades
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President Xi Jinping urges EU to work with Beijing to help bring peace in Eastern Europe, prevent long-lasting economic fallout

Chinese leaders have brushed back pressure from the EU to take an anti-Russia stance in the Ukraine conflict, warning that cooperation between Beijing and Brussels is needed to prevent long-term damage to the global economy.

Speaking by videoconference on Friday in a summit meeting with EU leaders, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly said it could take years or even decades for the global economy to recover fro...

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Organize, don’t agonize, says Cooperation Jackson’s Kali Akuno
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On election night, 2008, Kali Akuno and Sacajawea Hall were at the CNN building in Atlanta watching the results. Akuno remembers walking back to where they were staying in a quasi-fugue state brought on by the political shock of his life. 

“America done actually let a Negro win the election,” he said. “I never thought I’d see the day. Okay, well, we said ‘Never’ and never is now happening.”

Suddenly a truck rolled up on them.

“A white boy drives up and says, ‘Niggers go home!’ and I thought, ‘I’m still in America,’” he explained with a soft laugh. 

In the weeks that followed, Akuno had an eye on the dramatic spike in gun sales around the country between election night and...

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