Longtime AIDS activist and author Larry Kramer died Wednesday morning in Manhattan. He was 84. Kramer was an American playwright, screenwriter and gay rights pioneer and is widely credited with catalyzing the early response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United States. The cause of death was pneumonia, according to The New York Times. nbc news obit
Except when it originates in the U.S. Scientists believe the Spanish Flu jumped from birds to humans in the American Midwest. Another home-grown influenza is the H1N1, or theSwine Flu. So why don't we refer to these diseases as "America's Heartland Virus" or "Boy, those Americans sure love their pork Flu"?
Words are power. Words have consequences. Woke on that.
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Words have consequences.
I was just listening to "Suavecito" and discovered that Jorge Santana passed away a few days ago. While not as famous as his brother, Jorge and Malo made some good music in the early seventies.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/carlos-santana-brother-jorge-santana-dead