- “The Red charity advertising campaign endorsed so lavishly by Hollywood celebrities…has taken in only $18 million…And the disproportionate ratio between the marketing outlay and the money raised is drawing concern”
- “There are Asian-American stars in sports, movies, television and classical music. But the “Asian thing” is what Mr. Lee and many other aspiring Asian-American singers say largely accounts for the lack of Asian-American pop stars.”
- Thanks Kyla! “The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said on Sunday that he was stepping down after only 19 months on the job, signaling divisions within the organization, the nation’s oldest and largest civil ri
- She’s baaaack!
Thanks Kyla! “If my kids end up identifying as “black” rather than white or biracial, I’ll be secretly pleased. But in the end, if they can go toe to toe with me, they can consider themselves whatever they like.” - Thanks Tereza! “Bernal is among Native Americans across the West fighting to excise “squaw” from the names of region’s waterways, peaks and river valleys…They claim the term evokes the painful chapter in American history”
- “Korean American community leaders who met with a top official at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Thanks Rob! “Los Angeles on Friday said they were disgusted by anti-Semitic depictions in a comic book by a popular South Korean author and vowed to mobilize
- More Princeton anti-Asian racism. “Graffiti written Friday night on the walls of Blair Hall targeted students in substance-free housing, characterizing them as gay or Asian. Mathey College administrators said they do not yet know who is behind the vandali
- Thanks Vandia! “The search for a better life drives hundreds of thousands of people from poor countries to try their fortunes abroad each year…retraced the odyssey of 46- year- old John Ekow Ampan, a Ghanaian father of three, to Europe.”
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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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