- “A recent report from the Anti-Defamation League is showing a surge in KKK activity and cites that the organization has a new target: Latinos.”
- “Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson…may well be one of the world’s best-known black scientists. But don’t invite him to speak at a Black History Month celebration. Tyson is likely to turn you down.”
- Rick Kamdar was expelled from American University for calling another student a gay slur. But the student who provoked the fight told him to “go back to India” and is facing no disciplinary action whatsoever.
- Thanks Geraly! Check out Vicki Gunvalson’s lame apology. On a recent episode, she got off the phone after speaking to an Asian company and said something like, “all i hear is chinky chinky chinamen…” The comments of course, defend her racism.
- Thanks Rob. “Despite growing numbers of mixed couples in America, movie relationships between men and women of different races are most likely to be short-lived, oversexed and downright dangerous, a new University of Florida study finds.”
- Thanks Vandia. “Noam Chomsky…circulating a letter calling for an examination of the process that denied tenure to African-American stem cell scientist James L. Sherley, who began a hunger strike today…he was denied tenure because of racism.”
- Thanks Tariq. “Wendy Duncan and her husband Brian are white. Nineteen months ago, the Lincolnshire housewife gave birth to a beautiful, healthy, Indian daughter… the product of a booming industry in India that is offering embryos for adoption.”
- A documentary made with Melvin Van Peebles’ participation that looks back at his multi-faceted career and the brilliant, uncompromising man behind it all. The film includes interviews with Spike Lee, Gil Scott-Heron, Gordon Parks, and Elvis Mitchell.
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
The Same Woman – Thea
I Speak For Myself – Fatemeh
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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