Category: Environment
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
America Fixates On 500 Assholes Instead Of Healing Its Own Institutional Racism “The excuses are endless as to why the possibility of slavery reparations shouldn’t even be subject to mainstream debate, let alone actually tried. As soon as you suggest that liberals put their money where their mouth is because screaming at Nazis every once…
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Evolved Man of the Week: Sherman Alexie
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to author, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie.…
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Am I a Gentrifier?
gen·tri·fi·ca·tion noun the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste. the process of making a person or activity more refined or polite. I love my hometown of Chicago. For all its faults, it’s the city that raised and educated me, both in the classroom and on…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Majority of Women Say Their Interest In Politics Has Increased Since Election For the majority of the country, the election of Trump is still stressful to talk about. The poll found that 59 percent of the country feels it’s “stressful and frustrating” to talk about politics with people who don’t share their opinion of Trump.…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump Faces ‘Uncomfortable Conversations’ With World Leaders at G20 Summit “The G20 agenda is set for some uncomfortable conversations,” Charles Kupchan, a Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow, told NBC News. “It will be dominated by climate change, by free trade, by immigration, and these are issues where Trump is — more or less —…
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How to educate White Folks about race in the Post-Obama Era
In 2008, the liberal talking heads and political pundits gleefully claimed ‘the not so surprise’ ascent of presidential candidate and the eventual 44th president of the United States of America, Barack Obama represented a new ‘post-racial’ America. I guess, America became post-racial once a critical mass of white people was comfortable enough to vote for…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
Kids have been using Trump’s name and words to bully classmates Students have threatened their classmates with deportation, chanted Trump’s name or “white power” at minority students, paraded Confederate flags and spray-painted racial slurs and swastikas at schools around the country. #Trump#Bullying#America#UnitedStates#Bigotry The shocking UK election results explained “The result, then, is that May’s gamble…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Cesar Milan
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to dog trainer and expert, New York Times best-selling…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
Noose found at exhibit in African-American Smithsonian Museum “The noose has long represented a deplorable act of cowardice and depravity — a symbol of extreme violence for African Americans. Today’s incident was a painful reminder of the challenges that African Americans continue to face,’’ Lonnie Bunch III, the museum’s founding director, said in a statement.…
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Evolved Man of the Week: Chris Venegas
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to Chicago native, Year Up Chicago Alumni, IT…
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