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- “Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday. A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him. If his mother had been insured. If his family had not lost its Medicaid. If Medicaid dentists weren’t so hard to find.”
- “The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is now struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture’s negative effect on society.”
- “The truth is that they have been playing us like suckers. And I’m not gonna take this shit anymore. Music fucking TeleVision is trying to rewrite the legacy of Hip-Hop in their image by creating the list of the top ten Hip-Hop groups of all time.”
- “there was a second wave of ethnic cleansing in the late 19th century that got rid of the large black population in the north of the country. Formerly, black people in Argentina had played a major economic and cultural role. The tango, for example, has ro
- Love Toby Dawson! Quote: “. It’s kind of in vogue to adopt a child from a different country. That’s kind of what I get distaste for. … It’s not like going out and getting a new German car or something — that’s not what having a child is all about,” he
- “the two pieces that they’ve run on this story – an “article” entitled “Free To Be He-She” and the even worse editorial, “Justice Isn’t That Blind” – are really just awful and enraging. Not only are the articles thoroughly transphobic…”
- This sounds incredible. “The Dance is an educational play based upon the history of American Minstrelsy…Using authentic past and present day images…the audience ends up making comparisons between past-day minstrelsy, and the lingering perceptions that
- “BUY (LESS) rejects the notion that shopping is a reasonable response to human suffering, and it provides a more meaningful option—GIVE MORE…question the efficacy of expensive and wasteful corporate retail cause marketing approaches like the (RED) cam(tags: african celebrities)
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