Category: Sex Crime
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We’re All Niggas Now
AMERICAN HISTORY X This Nation’s foundation was built on shaky ground. From the massive land grab from indigenous peoples to the enslavement of Africa people to women being seen as only baby making machines, America hasn’t been so great for everybody. The creation of a racial caste system meant that we would be separated (based…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
TrumpBeat: There Is No Pivot “Donald Trump’s campaign for president was notably light on policy details, which meant no one was sure what he’d do once he took office. Washington insiders debated whether he would govern as the populist bomb thrower he presented during the campaign or morph into a more conventional Republican, in policy…
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The Burning Fire
Society’s Embers After spending a week in Big Bend National Park and witnessing the night’s sky in it’s purest form, I feel refreshed and humbled again by the beauty of nature. Now I find myself plugged back into the “so-called” real world. The vicious attack (and video) in Chicago has been replayed ad nauseum throughout…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Chinese Middle Class in Uproar Over Alleged Police Brutality The signatories of at least two online petitions organized through university alumni networks are infuriated by the Beijing prosecutors’ decision last Friday to drop charges against five police over the death of Lei Yang, a 29-year old graduate of prestigious Renmin University, in police custody…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump picks South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be US ambassador to UN “President-elect Donald Trump has picked South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be the US ambassador to the United Nations, the transition team announced Wednesday.” #Trump#NikkiHaley#TrumpTransition#UN ‘It’s a crime to be young and pretty’: girls flee predatory Central America gangs “Increasing numbers of…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Here’s What You Should Know About The Dakota Pipeline Protest “Protesters from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe have been joined by supporters from other tribes and many non-Native American allies, both at the protest camp in North Dakota and in solidarity demonstrations throughout the world. Actor Mark Ruffalo and civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Pakistani boy gang-raped in Greek migrant camp: police ATHENS: Four Pakistani minors have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 16-year-old boy in a Greek migrant camp, police said Wednesday. #Pakistan #Greece #International #ChildAbuse Biocentrism Says Time and Death Are Illusions You’ve Invented Okay, I admit it. They had me at “You won’t actually die.” I…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
I’m an American woman living in Delhi. ‘Don’t date the locals’ is horrible advice. Because, much to the contrary of that insulting advice I received while studying abroad here the first time, falling in love with people who are different from you is the only way to find real community in another culture. And learning…
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The Week In Stories Around The Globe
THE LEGACY OF LYNCHING, ON DEATH ROW “In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and founded an organization that became the Equal Justice Initiative. It guarantees legal representation to every inmate on the state’s death row.” #DeathRow#NewJimCrow#Injustice#Race Scientists have a scary theory about why human vision evolved to…
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Half of the Sky
Cloudy Skies Ahead During my young and single days, like most 20 somethings, I was looking for love in all the wrong places. But I had fun while looking. I was at a bar one night in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. I met a young nurse we’ll call “Rose.” She was sitting alone at the…
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