Category: equality
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
After the Obama disappointment, black voters want more than empty symbolism This familiarity may be enough for some black people. Her incremental reforms for black households could have been useful. Her messaging about black issues – such as segregation and voter suppression – was well-timed in debates that focus very little on them. But in…
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Surviving R. Kelly by Leaving Neverland
How the Sinner Preys Last week, I sat through two of the year’s most shocking and controversial documentaries: Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly and HBO’s Leaving Neverland. Both documentaries dive into the dark and twisted worlds of sexual abuse, child abuse, and how fame and wealth can allow one to almost get away with the unthinkable.…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
Colombian Unions, Students Plan Strike, Marches; Government Warns Against Violence Colombian unions and student groups are planning a strike on Thursday, with marches to insist the government maintain minimum wages for young people and the universal right to a pension. #Revolution #Colombia #Protest #Politics Debt Is Holding Black Americans Hostage Slavery and its aftermath continue to hurt…
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The Evolved Men of the Week: The Combat Hippies
Welcome to the “Veterans Day” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Men of the Week’ profile. Today we will highlight historical and contemporary figures who embodied what it meant to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the Combat Hippies.…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The Lesson from Chile: Dismiss Voters at Your Own Peril Chileans won’t all be 100% happy with the result. Our great challenge is to form a new social contract through consensus, taking into account both the progress we have achieved with our young democracy, and its demands for greater social justice and equality. #Chile #Protest #Elections #LatinAmerica…
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The Evolved Men of the Week: The Golden Thirteen
Welcome to the “Veterans Day” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Men of the Week’ profile. Today, we will highlight historical and contemporary figures who embodied what it meant to be an evolved man, both famous and non-famous. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the Golden…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Israeli embassies around the world shut as diplomats, military attachés strike All Israeli embassies and consulates around the world shut down early Wednesday as diplomats and military attachés went on strike in a long-simmering dispute with the Finance Ministry over expense stipends paid to envoys. #Israel #Embassy #Strike #Diplomats Students defy prime minister to join Iraq protests…
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Leave My Curl Alone
Black Hair Matters Afros, braids, Bantu knots, cornrows, locks, and twists are a few of the many ways black people have worn their hair for millennia. But in the United States and across the globe, black people’s hair has always been a point of contention. It’s been policed since the days of slavery. Yet, there…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Hanoi orders probe as majority of Essex truck death victims likely from Vietnam Nghe An is one of Vietnam’s poorest provinces, and home to many victims of human trafficking, who end up in Europe, according to a March report by the Pacific Links Foundation, a US-based anti-trafficking organization. #SoutheastAsia #Vietnam #London #HumanTrafficking Weekend At Bernie’s: Sanders Tell…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
NASA Astronauts Complete the First All-Female Spacewalk Both women, as well as Ms. McClain, were part of NASA’s 2013 class of eight astronaut trainees, which was the first to include equal numbers of men and women. There are now 12 female astronauts in NASA’s ranks, out of a total of 38 active ones. #NASA #Science #WomenInSTEM #Space Protests Rock…
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