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- Thanks Rob! “Masi Oka, the breakout star of NBC’s rookie hit “Heroes,” is putting on his poker face for the casino-set thriller “21.” The film is inspired by the true story of a group of men who learned the art of card counting and won millions of dollars(tags: movies asianamerican)
- Thanks Rob! Conservative group the Young America’s Foundation releases this academic year’s “Dirty Dozen” — college courses it found to be “the most bizarre and troubling instances of leftist activism supplanting traditional scholarship.”
- Thanks Rob! “”The persistent, relentless portrayal of Roma as rootless, lawless, immoral, childlike thieves … will ensure that anti-Gypsy prejudice will remain firmly a part of Euro-American attitudes,” says Ian Hancock, a Romani scholar at the Universi
- Thanks Rob! “not only have outreach and retention efforts for Native American students been neglected, but an organization openly mocking and bastardizing Native American culture has long been in place.”
- “The Roman Catholic church where he preached to parishioners on Chicago’s South Side is long gone. And few know the story of the man himself — a slave who became the first acknowledged black Catholic priest in the United States.”
- “The fact is that racism — and anti-black racism in particular — is a pervasive and historically entrenched reality of life in Latin America and the Caribbean…”
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