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A Commitment to/with/for The Damned
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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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Cain Accuser Got a Year’s Salary in Severance Pay
Breaking News Alert The New York Times Tuesday, November 1, 2011 — 10:04 PM EDT —– The National Restaurant Association gave $35,000 — a year’s...
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Soup Maker for the Masses
By S. Buchalter There was a time, that I was on the front lines or behind the fences, in the dark, at night, climbing over...
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Herman Cain responds to sexual harassment claims with what appears to be a lie
During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association...
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US cuts off Unesco funding after Palestinian vote
On Monday, the US halted funding for UNESCO after the body voted to grant full membership to the Palestinians. While symbolic, the move clearly angered...
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Court asked to block new Arizona abortion law
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro The Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence and ACLU of Arizona are asking the federal court to prevent a new state abortion law from...
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SlutWalk from the Margins
By Destiny Birdsong, Donika Ross, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, and Nikki Spigner On October 2, 2011, in Nashville, Tennessee, hundreds of people gathered for SlutWalk Nashville. Merely one...
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No, You Aren’t Amber Cole’s Father
If you follow events on the intertubes, you may have heard of the sad case of Amber Cole, a 14-year-old girl who was videotaped...
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Study Links New Birth Control Pills, Blood Clots
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro A recent study conducted by the FDA of 880,000 women found that women taking the Yaz birth control pill are 75% more likely...
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Judge approves historic settlement for black farmers
Remember Shirley Sherrod, former Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture? Back in July 2010 Sherrod was wrongfully fired by...
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Update: Scott Olsen has reportedly regained consciousness
News sources are reporting that Iraq veteran, Scott Olsen, injured in an Oakland police raid earlier this week, has regained consciousness in recovering from a...
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Good and Proper Affect in a Broken World: Heartbrokenness as Feminist Practice
On the night Troy Davis was murdered by the state of Georgia, I watched a girl, who appeared to be about twelve years old, cry....
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Scott Olsen injuries prompt review as Occupy Oakland protests continue
The Occupy Oakland movement took a turn toward violence the past Tuesday night, when members of the Oakland Police Department conducted a predawn raid of...
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Obama Still Has the Black Vote
By Nicole A. Spigner New York Time’s Helen Cooper reported today that black voters largely remain firmly in support of Barak Obama’s re-election—all of this...
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Turkey Earthquake: Death toll passes 430
The past Sunday, an earthquake of a 7.2 magnitude hit the Turkish city of Van, located in the southeast region of the country. News sources...
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Rap & Wall Street
Critics from Fox News to feminist groups have argued that the violence, blatant sexism and idolization of drugs and criminal behavior found in rap lyrics...
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Featured Filmmaker: Nev Nnaji
Nev Nnaji’s “Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights” reflects upon the marginalization of black women in the Black Power and Feminist movements and raises...
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Beyond Wall Street–Occupying Patriarchy…
To Occupy Patriarchy is to draw attention to “the far deeper and greater problem of patriarchy which depends in large measure on the exploitation, disempowerment, and subjugation...
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My Female Colleagues Told Me Not To Talk About The Abuse. I Did It Anyway
To tell or not to tell? That is the question that many domestic abuse survivors face daily. Michele Weldon, assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University,...