Author: Lornett Vestal
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Lockdown: Orange is the New Black Goes Dark
On June 17th, 2016 Netflix released the fourth season of their hit show Orange is the New Black. This season of the show took on many hard-hitting topics, such as racism, prison privatization, CO brutality, and sexual trauma. This controversial season has sparked many online debates, with some critics calling it ‘ trauma porn’, a…
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The Week In Stories Around The Globe
Could the UK hold another Brexit vote? The UK made a historic decision to leave the European Union on Thursday — but has so far hesitated on pulling the trigger to go. Now questions are being asked as to whether it has to happen. Here are the scenarios in the conversation. #Brexit #EuropeanUnion #JohnOliver…
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Hope and The Righteous Side of History
A Year of Remembrance 2016 has been a year of tremendous tragedy, sorrow, social divisiveness, and political turmoil. We’ve seen the deaths of prominent celebrities, like Nathalie Cole, Alan Rickman, Prince, and Muhammad Ali, just to name a few. This has been one of the most contentious presidential election cycles in recent years. The rise…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Former Brazil president Lula poised for corruption trial, associates fear “The justices will take a position in the coming days, in the coming weeks, not only with respect to this case, but also with respect to plea bargains that complement my plea bargain,” he said. “What we can see is that the circle…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker “A former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman was sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have “a severe impact on him,” according to a judge. At his sentencing on Thursday, his victim read…
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TransAmerica: The Case for Trans Rights
The Friend and the Controversy In 2012, a good friend, “Terri,” called me up one evening. At the time, they identified as female, but that night they felt compelled to come out to me as trans. By the end of summer in 2012, they had changed their name to Terry and identified as male. For…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
In Hiroshima 71 years after first atomic strike, Obama calls for end of nuclear weapons President Obama called for an end to nuclear weapons in a solemn visit to Hiroshima to offer respects to the victims of the world’s first deployed atomic bomb. #Obama #Hiroshima #NuclearWeapons Ghana to Ban Sale of Skin Bleaching…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Almost 80 percent of Indian women face public harassment in cities – survey “Safety of women is directly related to patriarchal mind sets that manifests itself in streets, homes and workplaces,” said Sehjo Singh, ActionAid India’s director of programmes and policy.” #WomenRights #HumanRights#Equality A Couple in Chicago On May 26, 1996, Mariana…
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Blue Jeans and Cheerios Make Racists Go Cray Cray: On Interracial Love in the U.S.
The Controversy On April 26, 2016, Old Navy sent out a tweet that drove the Twitter-Verse into a frenzy and rapidly sparked a backlash from the loveliest of twitter trolls. “What was the cause of this venomous reaction?” you might be asking. It was a tweet for an Old Navy sale ad that featured a…
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My Miniskirt Brings All the Boys to the Yard: Erykah Badu and Feminism
A few weeks before Beyonce had the social media thirsty for #lemonade, Prince was still rocking out Atlanta with his own brand of purple magic, and before President Obama came at the black lives matter movement activists sideways….singer, songwriter, and Queen of the Hoteps Erykah Badu made some comments on Twitter that sparked an intense…
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