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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)
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#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
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Suit: Arizona authorities shackled pregnant inmate
A Mexican woman — a former inmate in Maricopa County, Arizona — claims in a lawsuit that sheriff’s officers mistreated her during and after her...
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The Intimacy of Mentoring
Let me be clear: As a daughter of the working class and a first-generation college student, I would not be where I am today without...
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Mentor or Ares?: Some Other Considerations on Mentoring
In his 2003 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush urged “the men and women of America” to mentor. He noted that “ne mentor,...
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Gingrich to gay man: Vote for Obama
When asked how he plans to engage the gay community in his bid for president, Newt Gingrich on Tuesday told a voter he wouldn’t be...
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Occupy Denver protesters disrupt vigil held to honor homeless who died in past year
After days of urging protesters to remove shanties from the Broadway sidewalk along Civic Center park, across the street from the site of Tuesday’s candlelight...
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Our Feminist Future
On the school grounds they call each other bitches with machine gun fury. This is the “new” term of “endearment”; a grand show of eye-rolling,...
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Off-the-Hook Black Feminist Mentorship: An Anti-Capitalist Re-evaluation
A lot of times, June Jordan couldn’t pay her phone bill. I held the disconnection notices in my own hands, sitting hungry and enthralled in...
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TFW Editorial Collective Forum on Mentoring
By Heather Laine Talley and Monica J. Casper Here we are, deep in the throes of the holiday season. Many of us are surrounded by...
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U.S. Poverty: Census Finds Nearly Half Of Americans Are Poor Or Low-Income
Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans – nearly 1 in 2 – have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on...
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Arpaio investigation results to be released
The Justice Department began its civil-rights investigation of Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio in 2008 and publicly disclosed the probe in March 2009 after months of complaints alleging...
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Kim Jong-il, North Korean Leader, is Dead
Kim Jong-il, the reclusive North Korean leader who has been battling ill health following a reported stroke in 2008, has died, the North’s official news...
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Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D. (Why Is the N.Y.P.D. After Me?)
Nicholas K. Peart, 23, knows all too well what it means to be simultaneously blotted by race and gender. He has been stopped and frisked by New York City...
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1 in 3 Women Affected by Partner's Violent Behavior
More than one in three women have experienced sexual assault, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime, according to a Centers...
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The New Full-Frontal: Has Pubic Hair in America Gone Extinct?
Carrie Bradshaw, Hugh Hefner, and Barbie have each contributed to this generation’s ideal woman, who is athletic, alluring, and waxed… So… What’s happening to America’s...
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The GOP’s Christian Nationalist Faith Pimps
In American politics, patriotism, race-baiting, and faith-based pandering are the last refuge of a scoundrel. And this political season militant GOP appeals to white Christian...
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Black women were hit hard with job losses in economic crisis
After the health-care company where Linda Evans worked relocated outside the Washington area, she spent two years searching for another job. But nothing panned out....
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On Location: The “I” in the Intersection
The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and...
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Jerry Sandusky's wife says accusers are lying
In a statement released by her attorney, Dottie Sandusky claims her husband is innocent of sex abuse and the accusers are lying. I want to thank...