Category: Politics
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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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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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The Rise of the White Savior Complex and Our Failure in Diversity
What do movies like Dangerous Minds, Hardball, and The Freedom Writers all have in common? They’re all movies detailing a well-meaning white person coming into the ‘hood’ to save all of the little black and brown children from themselves and the wayward people in the community. The White Savior Complex is a modern spin on…
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The Police State and the Black Community: Redux
Why We Say Fuck Da Police “Get your fucking hands up now!” They surrounded the car, pointing their automatic assault rifles at the four of us sitting in a 1989 Mercedes-Benz. “Get outta da fuckin’ out the car!” “Where are the drugs?” The men thoroughly destroyed the inside interior of the vehicle. This was Memorial…
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Finding Peace in the City of Wind
“Peace is a lot like love. In order to have love, an individual must open themselves up to possible rejection and pain caused by another. Just like a community might risk war by opening themselves up to another community. To have peace or love, there is always some type of vulnerability that must be shown.…
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Cam Newton and the Curious Case of the Confident Black Person
Superbowl 50 and the Press Conference from Hell Carolina Panthers Quarterback Cam Newton hasn’t had the best few weeks. On February 7, 2016, he and his team lost the Super Bowl to the Denver Broncos in front of a live audience of 114 million people. And there was a controversial Beyoncé halftime performance (that warrants…
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