- “The campaign, with a budget estimated at $10 million, is infused with aspects of Japanese anime films and manga comics; movies like “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Blade Runner”
- “The original villain, “Ming the Merciless,” appeared to be a broad stereotype of the Chinese character of Fu Manchu and Asian despots in general. The new incarnation of Ming will drop the “Merciless” appellation from his name.”
- “HE is a moderate Muslim religious leader and a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. He is also a twice-married jet-setter, and he owns hundreds of racehorses, valuable stud farms, an exclusive yacht club on Sardinia and a lavish estate near Paris.”
- “The head of a Mississippi Democratic Party organization illegally suppressed white residents’ votes, a federal judge ruled Friday in the first case filed by the Justice Department alleging that whites were subjected to voting discrimination based on thei
- Fascinating. “lead poisoning accounts for much of the variation in violent crime in the United States. It offers a unifying new neurochemical theory for fluctuations in the crime rate, and it is based on studies linking children’s exposure to lead with vi
- “In the first presidential debate designed to focus on minority issues, the Democratic contenders aggressively sought to outmuscle one another on the topics of race and poverty and derided yesterday’s Supreme Court decision banning most affirmative action
- “Civil rights leader Al Sharpton blasted Georgia’s attorney general Thursday for challenging the release of a man serving 10 years in prison for a teenage sexual encounter, saying, “People did not suffer for your career.”"
- ” A national association of immigration lawyers said yesterday that it would bring a class-action lawsuit against the federal immigration agency for refusing to accept thousands of applications for work-based permanent visas”
- “shouldn’t we as gamers be pushing for this kind of conversation to happen within our community? Imagine if video games – which are blamed for everything from degenerate youth to tendonitis – became known for leading the dialogue on racial conscious
- “I soon realised that diversity may be sung about on paper, but in reality, it was the tried and tested ideas that sold, ideas that appealed to the white middle class audience it had-long secured, not the audience it was trying attract (horticulture, anyo
- Great opinion piece by HighJive on the “veritable Negro League of advertising” – the minority, multicultural ad agencies that are segregated from the rest of the advertising industry.
- “Telling that story without spotlighting white heroism means engaging years of the willing participation of white Americans in institutional and cultural racism, rather than comforting a white audience with a white hero.”
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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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