- Thx Tereza! “Things are worse now than when activist Angela Davis went to jail in the 1960s and 1970s…Now there is torture, exploding prison populations, walled-off borders and lurking racism, Davis said.”
- Thx Tereza! “Just before noon Thursday, students at Wauwatosa West High school found writing on the back of two side-by-side water fountains on the second floor. Written in marker, one said, “Whites.” The other said “Coloreds.”"
- Thx Tereza! “Over the last 30 years, we’ve seen racial protest in the U.S. switch from addressing growing social problems to addressing isolated incidents of highly public displays of insensitivity”
- Thx Tereza! “Adult minds are so keen at spotting race, gender and age that we can correctly guess those features from nothing more than a black-and-white silhouette, new experiments show.”
- Thx Tereza! “Scientists have identified several genetic risk factors for prostate cancer, shedding new light on the cause of a leading worldwide cancer killer among men that hits U.S. blacks especially hard.”
- Thx Tereza! “environmental racism is getting worse, not better…an even larger number of Hispanics/Latinos and African-Americans live within two miles of one of more than 400 such [hazardous waste sites] in the U.S.”
- Thx Tereza! “black people are three to 10 times more likely to be diagnosed as schizophrenic and less likely to be diagnosed with depression. They are also more likely to be detained and…to be given medication, rather than ‘talking’ therapies.”
- Thx Tereza! “The MC Rove spectacle inevitably raised the old debate asking whether white people rapping exploits hip hop. Some white acts have been embraced, such as the legendary Beastie Boys, while others—not so much. Vanilla Ice, anyone?”
- Thx Tereza! “House Bill 2823 would apply to students enrolled at an Oregon college or university when they were forced into internment camps by presidential executive order in 1942.”
- Thx Tereza! “U.S.-born Asians and Hispanics are choosing to wed foreign-born members of their own ethnicity. At the same time, greater numbers of new immigrants are marrying among themselves…could reflect growing pride among minority peoples.”
- Thx Eric! “Lawrence Dennis was a leading light in the American fascist movement of the 1930s. He was a fan of Hitler and a self-avowed anti-semite. Now a new book reveals that he was actually black – although even his wife didn’t know.”
- “Mexican actor Diego Luna (The motorcycle diaries, y tu mamá también) is ready for his next big role playing… Michael Jackson… yep, that Michael Jackson. I wonder how Luna will be transformed from a black youth into a whiter shade of pale. Cinematic
- “Miles O’Brien and Soledad O’Brien…are leaving the CNN program (ratings are down) and they are expected to be replaced by John Roberts and Kiran Chetry… Chetry is a woman who used to be on FOX News Channel’s Fox & Friends.”
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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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