- Thx Wendi! “the University of Central Florida released a study Thursday revealing that only 8.4 percent of major leaguers last season were of African-American descent.”
- Thx Wendi! “The nation’s No. 1 Latin record store chain has removed Jennifer Lopez’s music from each of its 50 stores after claiming she refused to visit their outlet, or any other store servicing Spanish music only”
- Thx Wendi! “The Pocahontas story is symbolic of many aspects of American history, and that’s why I think it’s been retold through so many generations in so many different ways. It’s a romantic story about the way things might have been.”
- Mmmmmmmm…. Hat tip to Angry Asian Man.
- Hat tip to AAM! Asian-American artist who satirized the racist Abercrombie and Fitch t-shirts has his work vandalized. Someone wrote “Mathew is a loser,” “Get a life Mathew Tom,” and “Matt Thom [sic] is Gay.”
- Yay!!! “Shaquanda Cotton, the 15-year-old African American youth who was sent to prison for seven years for shoving a school employee, was released from juvenile prison in Texas yesterday. The young woman had already served a full year”
- Thx Latoya! “A crusade against pedophiles has made Cacho…one of Mexico’s most celebrated and imperiled journalists. She is a target in a country where at least 17 journalists have been killed in the past five years and that trailed only Iraq in media de
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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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