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The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
#eulogizingaretha: A Reflection Upon a Musical Selection: “Mary, Don’t You Weep”
#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: A Rose Is Still A Rose
#eulogizingaretha: The Queen Saved My Soul
#eulogizingaretha: A Natural Black Woman: Aretha Franklin’s #BlackGirlMagic
#eulogizingaretha: Her life. Her love for us. Our love for her.
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Global Voice Hall Holds First Forum to Discuss Political Roles of Arab Women
The Global Voice Hall (GVH) held its first forum in Kuwait titled ‘The Absence of Women in Politics….’ on Sunday at the Graduates Society. The...
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What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’
By Theresa Warburton and Joshua Cerretti We’re white feminists. We aren’t white just because our ancestors were mostly European. We are white because we regularly...
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Palm Wine! The Birth Of A Movement
By Osazeme O, founding member of Palm Wine When discussing LGBTQ human rights on the African continent, the argument typically falls somewhere along the spectrum of...
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In 23 Years, 2000 Wrongfully Convicted People Exonerated
More than 2,000 people have been exonerated of serious crimes since 1989 in the United States, according to a report by college researchers who have...
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Aging, as They Say, is Not for Sissies; But it is for Pussies
By Shari Collins “You’re 50!” the OB/GYN yelled. She was clearly exasperated. Oh, and she looked like she was maybe 23. I tried again to...
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Reflections on Manny-gayte
By Theresa Runstedtler I’ve been a fervent Pacquiao fan for many years but “Manny-gayte” has left me feeling uneasy about my loyalty to him in...
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Beyond the Access Narrative: Marriage Politics, Austerity, Surveillance
By Tamara K. Nopper Several years ago I was at a mall in Philadelphia buying a meal from KFC. Because I didn’t want my cole...
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Arizona Secretary Of State Threatens To Keep Obama Off Ballot
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett made moves to appease birthers in his state this week, petitioning the state of Hawaii to confirm the existence...
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Love in the Time of Amendment One: From Arizona to North Carolina
By Mason Casper-Milam, with a response from Heather Laine Talley LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. But this article is just on the...
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Judge Grants Class-Action Status to Stop-and-Frisk Suit
A federal judge on Wednesday granted class-action status to a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics, saying she was disturbed by the...
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Migrant Kidnappings Frequent Along US/Mexico Border
The kidnapping of migrants who travel through Mexico on their way to the United States has become a “systematic and generalized” practice by organized crime...
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Excerpts from "Jumping the Jahru"
By Nina Sharma Jones That Dress That dress? It’s so heavy it could kill you. It will cost as much as an SUV, shouldn’t run...
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An Interview with Filmmaker Maniko Barthelemy
By Joseph Fischel Maniko Barthelemy is the director, executive producer, and chief executive officer at Southern Belle Productions. Her most recent film, I Thought It Was Forever, chronicles...
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Curb HIV With Female Circumcision And Shaving Heads, Says Zimbabwe Politician
A Zimbabwean politician has sparked outrage by suggesting the spread of HIV can be curbed if women shave their heads, stop bathing and deliberately make...
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Taliban Poetry Collection Sparks Controversy
Poetry of the Taliban, a soon-to-be-released collection of poetry written by Taliban fighters, faced a storm of criticism this past week. The book’s editors —...
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The Endless Baptism
The Endless Baptism For Palestine For the last few months, I’ve been working on a series of essays on Palestine. I’ve now written and erased...
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Reflections on the Palestinian Hunger Strike and Our Collective Liberation
By Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Hunger strikes have historically been used as a form of non-violent civil disobedience and protest. Liberation movements in the United States protesting...
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Mother's Day Forum
It’s been said that “mother” is a verb and not a noun. But of course, it’s both. Mothers are and mothers do, and quite often...