In 2017, a professionally trained chef from India was working as an intern at Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant that has frequently led a list of the world's best and has announced that it is closing to diners next year to reinvent itself as a food lab. As an intern, the New York Times reported, Namrata Hegde's only task was to make 120 fruit-leather "beetles" every day. She was told not to laugh or, for that matter, make any other noise. All of which would be bad enough had Hegde been paid. But she was an unpaid intern at a restaurant that charged $500-per-person for its dinner menu.

Had he lived, Martin Luther King Jr. would be 94 years old this year. The tragic brevity of his life, cut short by an assassin in 1968, remains a testament to the enduring impact he made during his short time on earth.

If you watch the news today, you'd be forgiven for thinking that we live in dark times. Impending climate change, overpopulation, political discord, conflict in Ukraine and threats of nuclear war all paint a bleak picture.

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In her first week as governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared the use of the word "Latinx" must be eliminated from official government document use. Her executive order "to respect the Latino community by eliminating culturally insensitive words from official use in government" is part of a thinly disguised "anti-woke" agenda adopted by a number of conservative Republicans.